Operationalization of green behavior at workplace: Analyzing three major constructs

Abstract

Pro-environmental behavior is a broad construct of individual activity that minimizes harm to or benefits the environment. Different researches have given different terminology for different aspect of those environment oriented behavior. Present research compares between the three different constructs of pro-environmental behavior at workplace which has been extensively researched upon in the last decade- employee green behavior, voluntary workplace green behavior and organizational citizenship behavior towards environment. Theoretical comparisons of the three variables were done. Comparisons among the three variables were also done by collecting data using measures of three variables. Data was collected from 234 employees from chemical manufacturing firm. Factor analysis was done to find out factors. Result of factor analysis showed similarities among the variables. The items of three scales loaded into three factors – daily pro-environmental activities, lesser consumption of resources and alternative pro-environmental steps. The similarities among the variables along with theoretical contribution are discussed. Comparison among three major initiatives have been done.. A comprehensive tool which has been suggested can be used by future researchers to measure environmental behavior at workplace.

The development and primary validation of employee green behavior scale

“…Previous research studies done on EGB have shown that there is a scarcity of proper scale to measure the variable (e.g. Roy et al , 2021). The present research focused on developing a new scale which fulfills the limitations of the previous research.…”

“…Lamm et al, 2013;Boiral et al, 2015aBoiral et al, , 2015bKim et al, 2017). Recent research studies on workplace behavior have shown that there is a need for a comprehensive scale for this kind of behaviors (Roy et al, 2021). One of the earliest was workplace environment-friendly behavior items.…”

“…Some of the previous scales have focused on dividing the behavior on the basis of voluntary and intended (Norton et al , 2014). Recent literature also suggests a lack of a comprehensive scale to measure workplace green behavior (Roy et al , 2021). The measure has been constructed by carefully examining previous tools available and to address the shortcomings of the previous scales and tried to include varied proenvironmental behaviors exhibited in the workplace (e.g.…”