They Are Just Light Bulbs, Right? The Personality Antecedents of Household Energy-Saving Behavioral Intentions among Young Millennials and Gen Z

Dai, Minhao; Chen, Tianen

doi:10.3390/ijerph182413104

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“…It will also increase the adaptability and flexibility of public institutions to the challenges posed by economic and social uncertainty. Generation Z youth will therefore be very valuable assets in public institutions and will increase the capacity of these entities to cope with uncertainty and black swan events [ 100 , 101 , 102 , 103 , 104 , 105 , 106 ].…”

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Understanding the Impact of Generation Z on Risk Management—A Preliminary Views on Values, Competencies, and Ethics of the Generation Z in Public Administration

Dobrowolski

Drozdowski

Panait

2022

IJERPH

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Gen Z, people born in the Internet age, are entering the labour market and soon will be responsible for public administration. Such a situation creates the need to study their professional motivations and competencies. We aim to determine: (1) What are the motivating factors of Gen Z representatives? (2) What is the factor’s structure of competencies of Gen Z employees? (3) Do Gen Z’s interest in public administration result from their needs to realise the public interest? These questions are fundamental for the strategy of hiring and training newcomers. This original paper’s insights have emerged iteratively based on a systematic literature searching method and data obtained from the surveys (n = 335). Research of Polish representatives of Gen Z showed that their expectations are similar to those found in other countries. However, their responses suggest that ethical issues are not the most important for them. The presence of generation G on the labor market will generate a paradigm shift in the activity of companies and public institutions that will be the employers of these young people. Reconfiguration of the principles of human resource management is necessary so that organizations benefit from the qualities of generation Z—they gravitate towards gamified processes because of mobile-centricity; they are natives of global communication, self-learners, and self-motivators; they appreciate transparency.

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confidence: 99%

Understanding the Impact of Generation Z on Risk Management—A Preliminary Views on Values, Competencies, and Ethics of the Generation Z in Public Administration

Dobrowolski

Drozdowski

Panait

2022

IJERPH

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“…They investigate explore the effects of Big Five personality traits on the energy-saving behavior of residents based on the extended theory of planned behavior. Furthermore, Dai and Chen (2021) studied of the effects of five individual personality differences that is consideration of future consequences, environmental value orientation, individualism and collectivism, regulatory focus, and self-monitoring) on young Millennials' and Gen Z's attitudes, perceived norms, perceived control, and intention to switch light bulbs. In addition, Pletzer et al, (2021) investigated provide a meta-analytic overview of all HEXACO domain-and facet-level relations with organizational citizenship behavior.…”

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confidence: 99%

Relationship between knowledge of energy concepts, lifestyle and personal norms with energy saving behavior

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Nadiroh

Sihadi

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The main objective of this study is to present the relationship between knowledge of energy concepts, lifestyle and personal norms with energy-saving behavior in elementary school teacher education students in Banten Province, Indonesia. The method opposed is quantitative research and correlational method with a sample of 447 students of Muhammadiyah University of Jakarta Elementary School Teacher Education Study Program, Indonesia. The validation results show that the relationship between knowledge of energy-saving concepts and energy-saving behavior shows a high significance value and the relationship between lifestyle and energy-saving behavior shows a high significance value. Furthermore, the relationship between personal norms and energy-saving behavior shows a high significance value. Finally, the relationship between knowledge of energy concepts, lifestyle and personal norms together with energy-saving behavior shows a high significance value. The relationship between knowledge of energy-saving concepts, lifestyle and personal norms either partially or jointly has a high significance value with energy-saving behavior. For further research, we recommend examining other variables that can relate or influence the formation of wise behavior towards the environment such as gender and environmental sensitivity.

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“…Specifically, under the supervision of responsible leaders, employees may increase their focus on environmental problems, improve their realization that human beings are the subject of responsibility for protecting ecosystems, and then reduce their environmental apathy ( Han et al, 2019b ; Afsar et al, 2020 ; Abbas et al, 2021 ). When employees’ environmental apathy was decreased, they may show great willingness to concern environmental problems and great initiative in displaying environmental protection behaviors ( Dai and Chen, 2021 ). In other words, such internal cognition will push them to exhibit external behaviors that are consistent with their subjective cognition, thus showing more low-carbon behavior.…”

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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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They Are Just Light Bulbs, Right? The Personality Antecedents of Household Energy-Saving Behavioral Intentions among Young Millennials and Gen Z

Cited by 11 publications

References 54 publications

Understanding the Impact of Generation Z on Risk Management—A Preliminary Views on Values, Competencies, and Ethics of the Generation Z in Public Administration

Understanding the Impact of Generation Z on Risk Management—A Preliminary Views on Values, Competencies, and Ethics of the Generation Z in Public Administration

Relationship between knowledge of energy concepts, lifestyle and personal norms with energy saving behavior

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

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