Workplace and Non-workplace Pro-environmental Behaviors: Empirical Evidence from Florida City Governments

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Azhar, Aisha; Yang, Kaifeng
• 署名单位: University of Management & Technology (UMT); Renmin University of China; State University System of Florida; Florida State University
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3352
• DOI: 10.1111/puar.13003
• 发表日期: 2019
• 页码: 399-410
• 关键词: public-service motivation; ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIOR; proenvironmental behavior; WORK MOTIVATION; employee; beliefs; bases; PARTICIPATION; attitudes; barriers

摘要

Public employees are expected to be good stewards of public resources and engage in pro-environmental behaviors (PEBs). Using different categorizations of PEBs, this article examines whether public employees perform these PEBs in workplace and non-workplace settings. The article further investigates how PEBs are influenced by salient characteristics of public organizations-that is, public service motivation (PSM) and civic participation categorized as civic engagement and cognitive engagement. Data were collected through a survey of public employees in two city governments in Florida. A structural equation model was employed to test the proposed model. Findings indicate that PSM has a positive influence on workplace PEBs and similar PEBs in the non-workplace settings. Civic engagement has a positive influence on both workplace and non-workplace PEBs. Barriers significantly moderate the effects of PSM and cognitive engagement on workplace and non-workplace PEBs.