Workplace green behaviour of managerial and professional employees in Hong Kong

Jamie Y H CHEUNG; Alicia S M LEUNG

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Workplace green behaviour of managerial and professional employees in Hong Kong

Jamie Y H CHEUNG^*, Alicia S M LEUNG

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Organisations have been increasingly aware of the importance of promoting environmental sustainability as one means of fulfilling a role in corporate social responsibility. Using data from 194 Hong Kong managerial and professional employees collected through two waves of online survey, we examined the impact of three proximal factors, autonomy at work, management involvement, and intrinsic motivation on workplace green behaviour (i.e., champion green behaviour, conventional green behaviour, paper use and electricity use). Our results showed that (1) employees’ intrinsic motivation and management expectations of acting green were significant predictors of workplace green behaviour; (2) autonomy at work was related only to champion green behaviour; and (3) the presence of committees or designated personnel on promoting green initiative was not related to employees’ workplace green behaviour.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Research Handbook on Employee Pro-Environmental Behaviour
Editors	Victoria Wells, Diana Gregor Smith, Danae Manika
Publisher	Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
Chapter	8
Pages	148-167
Number of pages	20
ISBN (Electronic)	9781786432834
ISBN (Print)	9781786432827
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786432834.00014
Publication status	Published - 29 Jun 2018

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Name	Research Handbooks in Business and Management
Publisher	Edward Elgar Publishing Limited

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Economics, Econometrics and Finance(all)
General Business,Management and Accounting

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Workplace green behaviour of managerial and professional employees in Hong Kong. / CHEUNG, Jamie Y H; LEUNG, Alicia S M.
Research Handbook on Employee Pro-Environmental Behaviour. ed. / Victoria Wells; Diana Gregor Smith; Danae Manika. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2018. p. 148-167 (Research Handbooks in Business and Management).

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