Pro-environmental behaviours at work: The interactive role of norms and attitudinal ambivalence

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Autor(a) principal: Mouro, C.
Data de Publicação: 2021
Outros Autores: Lomba, V., Duarte, A. P.
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/23623
Resumo: The environmental costs arising from unsustainable production patterns have increased to the point that organisations are now expected to adopt more responsible practices. Pro-environmental behaviours (PEBs) in the workplace can significantly contribute to bettering companies’ environmental performance and sustainability transition. This research investigated the interactive role of norms and attitudes in predicting voluntary energy conservation behaviours, based on a correlational study of 189 Portuguese workers. The study examined whether perceived norm conflicts involving co‐workers, closer colleagues and leaders’ behaviours promote or hinder workers’ own PEBs and whether attitudinal ambivalence towards their organisation’s pro-environmental initiatives is a moderator of this relationship. Controlling for the effect of the pro-environmental organisational climate, the ages of employees and organisation size, the results confirm that felt ambivalence moderates the relationship between norm conflict and reported energy conservation behaviours. The findings indicate that ambivalent workers are less likely to engage in PEBs if they perceive norm conflict, that is, if other staff members are not equally motivated to adopt those behaviours. Conversely, norm conflict had an energising effect on non-ambivalent workers. The results thus indicate that organisations could benefit from promoting their environmental policies more explicitly, encouraging their employees to discuss these initiatives and making voluntary PEBs more visible in the workplace.
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title Pro-environmental behaviours at work: The interactive role of norms and attitudinal ambivalence
spellingShingle Pro-environmental behaviours at work: The interactive role of norms and attitudinal ambivalence
Mouro, C.
Attitudinal ambivalence
Descriptive norms
Energy conservation
Norm conflict
Organisational climate
Pro‐environmental behaviours
Workplace
title_short Pro-environmental behaviours at work: The interactive role of norms and attitudinal ambivalence
title_full Pro-environmental behaviours at work: The interactive role of norms and attitudinal ambivalence
title_fullStr Pro-environmental behaviours at work: The interactive role of norms and attitudinal ambivalence
title_full_unstemmed Pro-environmental behaviours at work: The interactive role of norms and attitudinal ambivalence
title_sort Pro-environmental behaviours at work: The interactive role of norms and attitudinal ambivalence
author Mouro, C.
author_facet Mouro, C.
Lomba, V.
Duarte, A. P.
author_role author
author2 Lomba, V.
Duarte, A. P.
author2_role author
author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Mouro, C.
Lomba, V.
Duarte, A. P.
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Attitudinal ambivalence
Descriptive norms
Energy conservation
Norm conflict
Organisational climate
Pro‐environmental behaviours
Workplace
topic Attitudinal ambivalence
Descriptive norms
Energy conservation
Norm conflict
Organisational climate
Pro‐environmental behaviours
Workplace
description The environmental costs arising from unsustainable production patterns have increased to the point that organisations are now expected to adopt more responsible practices. Pro-environmental behaviours (PEBs) in the workplace can significantly contribute to bettering companies’ environmental performance and sustainability transition. This research investigated the interactive role of norms and attitudes in predicting voluntary energy conservation behaviours, based on a correlational study of 189 Portuguese workers. The study examined whether perceived norm conflicts involving co‐workers, closer colleagues and leaders’ behaviours promote or hinder workers’ own PEBs and whether attitudinal ambivalence towards their organisation’s pro-environmental initiatives is a moderator of this relationship. Controlling for the effect of the pro-environmental organisational climate, the ages of employees and organisation size, the results confirm that felt ambivalence moderates the relationship between norm conflict and reported energy conservation behaviours. The findings indicate that ambivalent workers are less likely to engage in PEBs if they perceive norm conflict, that is, if other staff members are not equally motivated to adopt those behaviours. Conversely, norm conflict had an energising effect on non-ambivalent workers. The results thus indicate that organisations could benefit from promoting their environmental policies more explicitly, encouraging their employees to discuss these initiatives and making voluntary PEBs more visible in the workplace.
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