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Workplace green behaviour of managerial and professional employees in Hong Kong

In: Research Handbook on Employee Pro-Environmental Behaviour

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  • Yu Ha 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.

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  • Yu Ha Cheung & Alicia S. M. Leung, 2018. "Workplace green behaviour of managerial and professional employees in Hong Kong," Chapters, in: Victoria Wells & Diana Gregory-Smith & Danae Manika (ed.), Research Handbook on Employee Pro-Environmental Behaviour, chapter 8, pages 148-167, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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