Artikel

Linking environmental management and employees' organizational identification: The mediating role of environmental attitude

The fundamental research question in the present study is whether perceived environmental management practices relate to employees' organizational identification. Specifically, it is hypothesized that this relationship is mediated by employees' environmental attitudes. The corresponding research model adopts a multi‐theoretical approach that combines two different theoretical lenses. Goal‐framing theory is introduced to predict whether perceived environmental management practices affect employees' environmental attitudes, while green‐person‐organization fit is applied to explain the relationship between employees' environmental attitudes and organizational identification. The research model was tested using a cross‐sectional research design with data from 206 employees from tourist service companies in Germany. The results, which largely support the research model, shed light on a thus far unexplored mechanism that mediates individual reactions to organizational practices and contrasts the more established proposition that employees first identify with their organization before they develop attitudes that are in accordance with corresponding ingroup norms. Implications for both research and practice are discussed.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Journal: Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management ; ISSN: 1535-3966 ; Volume: 29 ; Year: 2021 ; Issue: 2 ; Pages: 305-315 ; Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Classification
Management
Subject
corporate sustainability
environmental management
goal‐framing theory
green‐person‐organization fit
micro‐CSR
organizational identification

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Jaich, Hans
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
(where)
Chichester, UK
(when)
2021

DOI
doi:10.1002/csr.2201
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  • Artikel

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  • Jaich, Hans
  • John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Time of origin

  • 2021

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