Abstract
To understand the conditions that support employee green behavior across cultures, we develop and test a conceptual model that describes how normative cues from work team leaders and peers in combination with country cultural norms shape discretionary green workplace behavior. Data from 1,605 employees in five countries indicate that power distance moderates the positive relationships observed between the discretionary green workplace behavior of leaders and their subordinates. In addition, an observed positive relationship between team green advocacy and individual discretionary green workplace behavior held across both collectivistic and individualistic cultures, contrary to our predictions. By taking macro-level cultural context into account and examining its interplay with lower-level work team norms, the study makes a significant contribution to understanding and intervening employees’ discretionary green behavior at work.
Original language | English |
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Journal | Organization and Environment |
Early online date | 29 Jun 2022 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2022 |
Keywords
- environmental attitudes and behavior
- leadership
- methods-quantitative
- organizational behavior
- organizational behavior and the environment
- social construction
- survey research
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Jiang, Y., Jackson, S. E., Shim, H., Budhwar, P., Renwick, D. W. S., Jabbour, C. J. C., Jabbour, A. B. L. D. S., Tang, G., Muller-Camen, M., Wagner, M., & Kim, A. (2022). Culture as Context: A Five-Country Study of Discretionary Green Workplace Behavior. Organization and Environment. https://doi.org/10.1177/10860266221104039