Go green! Exploring the organizational factors that influence self-initiated green behavior in the United Arab Emirates

Lasrado, Flevy; Zakaria, Norhayati

doi:10.1007/s10490-019-09665-1

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“…Organisations could influence employees' green practices by establishing pro-sustainability strategies in their offices' design by utilising energy-efficient materials. For example, an office's layout and lighting design can considerably impact occupants' behaviour [76]. Environmental training and development denote a system of activities that encourage employees to study environmental conservation skills and focus on environmental issues critical in achieving environmental objectives [77].…”

Section: Solutions To Implement Employee Ecological Behaviour (Eeb)mentioning

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Exploring Challenges and Solutions in Performing Employee Ecological Behaviour for a Sustainable Workplace

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Organisations are a fundamental part of challenges and solutions to climate change issues. Therefore, the micro and macro factors influencing employee ecological behaviour (EEB) are a rising interest among researchers. The contemporary concept of EEB has been embraced by many organisations and attracted scholars’ attention worldwide. Nevertheless, studies that explored challenges and solutions for performing EEB at the workplace are scarce. This study explored challenges and solutions in performing EEB at the workplace and focused on qualitative research methodology. The researchers interviewed 24 academicians from five leading green research Malaysian universities. Valuable qualitative data and numerous challenges such as high costs of practising, lack of infrastructure, top management support, environmental attitude, green mindfulness, enforcement, and monitoring were identified as challenges in applying EEB from the interviews. Stringent rules and regulations, monitoring, training programmes, and monetary incentives might be efficient solutions to apply ecological behaviour at workplaces, specifically universities. In conclusion, this study has discovered the challenges and solutions in implementing EEB for a sustainable workplace by interviewing academicians from different departments of selected Malaysian higher educational institutes. Also, poor infrastructure, high cost, and the lack of top management support, environmental attitude, green mindfulness, enforcement, and monitoring were identified as the primary challenges in performing EEB. Additionally, the research also discovered significant suggestions to resolve the challenges when implementing EEB at the workplace, such as strict rules and regulations, training programmes, incentives, monitoring, and communicating change and campaigns. Therefore, the stakeholders related to the industry should be concerned with the challenges identified when applying EEB at the workplace to apply the solutions generated from the study.

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“…However, turning off lights is a discretionary behaviour. Furthermore, Lasrado and Zakaria [76] proposed introducing incentives, corrective pressure, and creating awareness through education as excellent strategies to encourage workplace ecological behaviour.…”

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“…And although this study pointed toward the synergy that exists between CSR and most of the variables studied-which increases opportunities for knowledge creation-there remains much to be studied. Future research might include variables on managers' superiors, or specific indicators to measure leadership, along the lines of Priyankara, Luo, Saeed, Nubuor and Jayasuriya, 2018;Robertson and Carleton, 2018;Lasrado and Zakaria, 2020;Ilies, Nahrgang and Morgeson, 2007;Kamdar and Van Dyne, 2007;and Tang et al, 2012.…”

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“…The major studies on CSR in recent decades have drawn on Carroll (1991Carroll ( , 2016 and his CSR pyramid, which proposes the simultaneous execution of initiatives across ethical, legal, and economic dimensions to achieve responsible results in business and financial performance. While the main theoretical strands have focused on the general benefits CSR offers managers, executives, and shareholders, Lasrado and Zakaria (2020) argue that responsible leaders should create organizational cultures that promote ecological behavior among their employees. In turn, other classical researchers have centered on the benefits shared among all stakeholders (Friedman, 1970;2007).…”

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The role of responsible management in job satisfaction and performance within banking firms

Álvarez

Valdez-Juárez

Ulloa

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J. Bus.

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In recent years the need for responsible management of financial institutions, in terms of organizational commitment to supporting society and strategies for sustainable economic development, has become increasingly pressing. The aim of this article is to determine the influence that management has on job satisfaction and performance at banking firms based in northeast Mexico. The primary data were obtained using an instrument applied to management-level employees of public and private banking firms in the cities of Ensenada and Tijuana in Baja California; and Hermosillo, Guaymas, Ciudad Obregón, and Navojoa in Sonora. The statistical technique of linear regression modeling was used to analyze and validate the results, with the aid of the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS), version 25. The results show that managerial commitment is a key factor in the organizational performance of responsible banking. Thus, the greater the management responsibility for socially responsible actions, the stronger the positive influence on employees’ job satisfaction in the sector. It was also found that the banks are generally well predisposed to corporate social responsibility, and that commitment has a positive and significant relationship with the performance of these institutions.

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“…Borck et al (2008) believe that environmental leadership programs can improve corporate environmental performance by setting environmental goals [93]. Responsible leaders need to create organizational cultures that facilitate green behaviors among their employees [94]. Green human resource management can be implemented successfully if top management supports green innovation performance appraisal, recruitment, reward, selection, and training [95].…”

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How Can Agricultural Corporate Build Sustainable Competitive Advantage through Green Intellectual Capital? A New Environmental Management Approach to Green Agriculture

Pan

Jiang

Wang

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IJERPH

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Based on natural resource-based theory, this study constructed a relational model between green intellectual capital, green innovation, and an agricultural corporate sustainable competitive advantage. The samples included a total of 341 agricultural companies in China, and multiple regression methods are used for the analysis. The results showed that green product innovation and green process innovation had a mediation effect between green human capital, green structural capital, green relational capital, and the sustainable competitive advantage of agricultural corporate. Beyond the simple moderation effect, a new integrated moderated-mediation effect model was established. It was shown that environmental leadership, green organizational identification, and green dynamic capability had different moderated-mediation effects under different conditions. The study is expected to close the previous research gaps and insufficiency in agricultural corporate environmental management and green agricultural. The empirical results and conclusions bring enlightenment and meaningful theoretical guidance to managers, researchers, practitioners, and policy makers in the green and sustainable development of agricultural corporates. The new environmental management path can help agricultural corporates conduct green innovation effectively, adapt to the green agricultural products market, and achieve sustainable competitive advantage. Ultimately, this will help to accelerate the development of green agriculture.

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Go green! Exploring the organizational factors that influence self-initiated green behavior in the United Arab Emirates

Cited by 49 publications

References 96 publications

Exploring Challenges and Solutions in Performing Employee Ecological Behaviour for a Sustainable Workplace

Exploring Challenges and Solutions in Performing Employee Ecological Behaviour for a Sustainable Workplace

The role of responsible management in job satisfaction and performance within banking firms

How Can Agricultural Corporate Build Sustainable Competitive Advantage through Green Intellectual Capital? A New Environmental Management Approach to Green Agriculture

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