GREEN SHOOTS: New Directions and Opportunities for Workplace Pro-environmental Behavior Research

Academy of Management Annual Meeting, 9th August 2010

Conveners: Matthew C. Davis & Sally V. Russell Chair: Julian Barling

Theme

Objectives• Generate interest in individual-level pro-environmental behavioral change

and it’s role in organizational environmental performance.

• Highlight the contribution that behavioral techniques, utilized in environmental psychology, may have for organizational scholars.

• Consider the role that emotion may play in engaging employees in sustainability initiatives.

• Discuss how OCB may be expanded to include actions that benefit the natural environment.

• Explore the experience of change agents in advancing their organization’s environmental activities.

• Stimulate discussion regarding the development of future research agendas.

• Spark debate regarding how management researchers may best inform practical activity with to improve organizational environmental performance.

Opportunities

• JOB Special issue 

OutlineIntegration: The Route to Sustainable Behavior?Matthew C. Davis (The University of Leeds) Engaging Employees in Environmental Initiatives: Is Emotion the Answer?Sally V. Russell (Griffith University) Organizational Citizenship Behavior and the Environment: An Extension on the Different Forms of OCBJulian Barling and Jennifer Robertson (Queens University) The Radical with a Temper: How Different Types of Change Agents Experience Negative EmotionKatherine A. DeCelles (University of Toronto), Scott Sonenshein (Rice University) and Andrew Hoffman (University of Michigan) Where Next for Research into Workplace Pro-Environmental Behavior? An Interactive DiscussionJulian Barling (Queens University) 

Interactive Discussion

Where next for research into workplace pro-

environmental behavior……..?