The psychology of green organizations / edited by Jennifer L. Robertson; Julian Barling

Includes bibliographical references and index.

As we move further into the 21st century, the global challenges and consequences posed by climate change are becoming increasingly apparent. Although organizations are considered significant contributors to climate change, they also have the potential to positively affect it through their employees. As a result, understanding how employees' pro-environmental initiatives can positively affect climate change has increasingly become the focus of inquiry among organizational researchers. The Psychology of Green Organizations brings together a number of these researchers to review leading research in different areas of organizational environmental sustainability. In so doing, this book consolidates available knowledge on employees' contributions to corporate environmental initiatives, stimulates future empirical research on this topic, and provides recommendations for how organizations can improve their environmental performance through their employees. Many chapters provide case examples of environmentally sustainable organizations to illustrate lessons gleaned from research. Chapters in part 1 provide a conceptual, theoretical, and methodological foundation for research on workplace pro-environmental behaviors, while those in parts 2 and 3 review research on the promotion of workplace pro-environmental behaviors at the individual and organizational levels, respectively. Part 4 explores one organization that has been successful at promoting employees' environmental initiatives, highlighting how both organizational and individual factors can be used to effect major changes in corporate environmental sustainability.

Part I: Setting the Stage ; Chapter 1: Introduction ; Jennifer L. Robertson and Julian Barling ; Chapter 2: The Nature of Employees' Pro-Environmental Behaviors ; Olivier Boiral, Pascal Paille, and Nicolas Raineri ; Chapter 3: Theoretical Basis for Organizational Pro-Environmental Research ; Angela M. Ruepert, Linda Steg, and Kees Keizer ; Chapter 4: Research Methods in Pro-Environmental Research ; Timur Ozbilir and E. Kevin Kelloway ; Chapter 5: Diary Methods and Workplace Pro-Environmental Behaviors ; Megan J. Bissing-Olson, Kelly S. Fielding, and Aarti Iyer ; Part II: The Role of Individuals in Promoting Workplace Pro-Environmental Behaviors ; Chapter 6: Individual Determinants of Workplace Pro-Environmental Behaviors ; Siu Hing Lo ; Chapter 7: The Role of Emotions in Promoting Workplace Pro-Environmental Behaviors ; Sally Russell and Elmar Friedrich ; Chapter 8: Environmental Leadership ; Jennifer L. Robertson and Julian Barling ; Chapter 9: Environmental Locus of Control ; Mark Cleveland and Maria Kalamas ; Chapter 10: "Green Me Up, Scotty": Psychological Influence Techniques for Increasing Pro-Environmental Employee Behavior ; Kerrie L. Unsworth ; Part III: The Role of Organizations in Promoting Workplace Pro-Environmental Behaviors ; Chapter 11: Organizational Change ; Mathew Davis and Phillipa Coan ; Chapter 12: Green Human-Resource Management ; Andrew Bratton and John Bratton ; Chapter 13: Ergonomic Initiatives Towards Environmental Sustainability ; Andrew Thatcher ; Chapter 14: Pro-Environmental Organizational Culture and Climate ; Thomas A. Norton, Hannes Zacher, and Neal A. Ashkanasy ; Part IV: Tying It All Together ; Chapter 15: Sustainable Innovation at Interface: Workplace Pro-Environmental Behavior ; as a Collective Driver for Continuous Improvement ; Steve Kennedy, Gail Whiteman, and Amanda Williams.