Identifying the influence factors on low-carbon behavior of employees from petrochemical enterprise under “Carbon Neutrality”

Zhao, Shengxian; Dai, Anguo; Zhao, Danyang; Song, Qingbin

doi:10.1007/s10668-022-02675-y

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“…Second, this study revealed the underlying mechanism that could explain the influence of responsible leadership on employees’ low-carbon behavior by testing the mediating effects of environmental consciousness and environmental apathy. Existing literature has demonstrated that individuals’ environmental self-accountability ( Xia et al, 2022 ), low-carbon knowledge ( Lin and Yang, 2022 ), and carbon neutrality behavioral intention ( Zhao et al, 2022 ) could positively predict their low-carbon behavior. However, relatively little research has explored whether responsible leadership may impact employees’ low-carbon behavior and how this impact occurs.…”

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“…Low-carbon behavior refers to the behaviors that are helpful for building a low-carbon society such as using energy-saving appliances or turning off appliances when they are not in use ( Whitmarsh et al, 2011 ). Previous studies have found that low-carbon knowledge ( Lin and Yang, 2022 ), carbon neutrality behavioral intention ( Zhao et al, 2022 ), and low-carbon awareness ( Xia et al, 2022 ) can promote individuals’ low-carbon behavior. In this study, we argue that employees’ environmental consciousness can foster their low-carbon behavior for the following reasons:…”

Section: Theory and Hypothesesmentioning

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How responsible leadership shapes followers’ low-carbon behavior: A dual-mediation model

Zhang

Liu²,

Zhang³

2023

Front. Psychol.

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IntroductionIn recent years, environmental problems such as global warming, rising sea levels, and species extinction have provoked a widespread concern all over the world, and many countries and international organizations have called for a reduction in carbon emissions. Theoretically, although many scholars have explored how responsible leadership influences subordinates’ work-related outcomes, little studies have examined the association between responsible leadership and employees’ low-carbon behavior. Therefore, to address this literature gap, we here drawing upon social cognitive theory developed a dual-mediation model to investigate how responsible leadership impacts employees’ low-carbon behavior, and through which mechanisms this impact may occur.MethodsBy conducting a questionnaire survey in a company in China, we collected the valid data from 411 samples. Then using SPSS 26.0 and Mplus 8.1, we tested our proposed theoretical model and hypotheses by analyzing these data.ResultsThe empirical results showed that responsible leadership was positively related to employees’ environmental consciousness, which can further increase their low-carbon behavior. At the same time, responsible leadership was negatively related to employees’ environmental apathy, which can reduce their low-carbon behavior. And employees’ environmental consciousness and environmental apathy played the mediating roles in the relationship between responsible leadership and employees’ low-carbon behavior. Furthermore, we found that leader-member exchange (LMX) magnified the direct effect of responsible leadership on employees’ environmental apathy and strengthened the indirect effect of responsible leadership on employees’ low-carbon behavior via environmental apathy, but the moderating effect of LMX on another path was not significant.DiscussionThese findings suggest that despite encouraging leaders to show responsible behaviors, promoting employees’ environmental consciousness and reducing their environmental apathy may be useful ways to facilitating their low-carbon behavior and achieving a low-carbon society. Moreover, establishing a high-quality of exchange relationship with followers may magnify the effectiveness of responsible leadership on lowering followers’ environmental apathy.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Theory and Hypothesesmentioning

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How responsible leadership shapes followers’ low-carbon behavior: A dual-mediation model

Zhang

Liu²,

Zhang³

2023

Front. Psychol.

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“…In other words, if employees believe that green behaviors are valuable to the company and play an important role in promoting the sustainable development of the company, then they tend to have a positive attitude towards such behaviors and show a firm green intention. Researchers Zhao et al (2022) [12], Xu et al (2021) [13], and Gao et al (2017) [14] studied the green behavior of employees in different workplaces with different types of jobs, respectively, and all of them confirmed that attitude has a significant positive effect on employees' green behavior.…”

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Review and Prospect of Research on Employee Green Behavior

Zhang

2024

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The current environmental problems are becoming more and more serious, and enterprises, as the main creators of environmental problems, pay more and more attention to environmental problems, and the green practices of enterprises need to rely on their employees to achieve them, so the attention to the green behavior of employees is increasing. Although research in this field has been gradually carried out both at home and abroad, there are still some deficiencies. This paper collates the conceptual connotations of employees' green behaviors by sorting out the relevant literature, analyzes the influencing factors of employees' green behaviors from the individual level and the situational level respectively, and finally puts forward deficiencies in employees' green behaviors research as well as the future outlook, to provide a reference to the research on employees' green behaviors in the future.

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“…The main costs associated with controlling carbon emissions in this framework include operational cost, supply chain cost, capital expenditure, emission and energy waste cost, and effluent and other waste cost. Zhao et al [29] employed the theory of planned behavior to identify the behavioral intentions of employees towards the goal of carbon neutrality in the petrochemical enterprise. Their study revealed that employees' psychological motivation and behavioral intentions towards low-carbon behavior are positively influenced by their perception of daily work and the economy of energy-saving measures.…”

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Evaluation of Enterprise Decarbonization Scheme Based on Grey-MEREC-MAIRCA Hybrid MCDM Method

Esangbedo

Tang

2023

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Engineering and technological breakthroughs in sustainability play a crucial role in reducing carbon emissions. An important aspect of this is the active participation of enterprises in addressing carbon reduction as a systemic approach. In response to government incentives in the People’s Republic of China, Chinese enterprises have developed carbon reduction systems to align their organizational goals with national long-term plans. This paper evaluates the carbon reduction schemes employed by six companies as a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problem. To this end, we propose a new hybrid MCDM method called the grey-MEREC-MAIRCA method. This method combines the recently developed method based on the removal effects of criteria (MEREC) for weighting and multi-attribute ideal-real comparative analysis (MAIRCA) based on the grey system theory. The proposed hybrid method provides the additional benefit of accounting for uncertainty in decision making. Notable findings of this research, based on the decision-maker scores, are that the control of direct carbon emissions and energy-saving efficiency are top priorities. In contrast, committing to corporate social responsibility through carbon public welfare and information disclosure are considered lesser priorities. Furthermore, the ranking results obtained using this method are compared with those from the classical weighted sum model and the technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS), confirming the selection of the best company. Despite the limitation of the proposed method and the additional steps needed in the evaluation, it opens up opportunities for future research to develop simpler MCDM methods under uncertainty.

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Identifying the influence factors on low-carbon behavior of employees from petrochemical enterprise under “Carbon Neutrality”

Cited by 6 publications

References 36 publications

How responsible leadership shapes followers’ low-carbon behavior: A dual-mediation model

How responsible leadership shapes followers’ low-carbon behavior: A dual-mediation model

Review and Prospect of Research on Employee Green Behavior

Evaluation of Enterprise Decarbonization Scheme Based on Grey-MEREC-MAIRCA Hybrid MCDM Method

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