What is considered an environmental context factor in determination of work group effectiveness?

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The Essential Impact of Context on Organizational Behavior

The Academy of Management Review

Vol. 31, No. 2 (Apr., 2006)

, pp. 386-408 (23 pages)

Published By: Academy of Management

https://www.jstor.org/stable/20159208

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Abstract

I argue that the impact of context on organizational behavior is not sufficiently recognized or appreciated by researchers. I define context as situational opportunities and constraints that affect the occurrence and meaning of organizational behavior as well as functional relationships between variables, and I propose two levels of analysis for thinking about context--one grounded in journalistic practice and the other in classic social psychology. Several means of contextualizing research are considered.

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What is considered an environmental context factor in determination of work group effectiveness?

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General environmental consideration are key for personal norms at work.

Personal norms affect different types of pro-environmental behaviour at work.

Context factors making people focus on environmental considerations are important.

A promising, cost efficient path to encourage pro-environmental behaviour at work.

Abstract

Encouraging pro-environmental behaviour at work can result in a significant reduction in environmental problems. Research revealed that general environmental considerations such as biospheric values and environmental self-identity are important antecedents of private pro-environmental behaviour. Yet, the question remains whether such general environmental considerations also predict pro-environmental behaviour at work. We propose a parsimonious theoretical model (the VIP-model) in which biospheric values affect personal norms to behave pro-environmentally at work and pro-environmental actions via the environmental self-identity. A study involving a diverse sample of employees from different European organizations supported the VIP-model, showing that biospheric values and environmental self-identity influence personal norms, and that stronger personal norms encouraged various self-reported pro-environmental behaviours at work to some extent. The VIP-model yields promising, cost-efficient strategies to encourage pro-environmental behaviour at work.

Keywords

Pro-environmental behaviour at work

Biospheric values

Environmental self-identity

Personal norms

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