Onubi, H O and Carpio, M (2025) Voluntary workplace proenvironmental behavior on construction project sites: Antecedent roles of green human resource management practices, environmental awareness, and job control. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 151(4): 04025007, ISSN 0733-9364
Abstract
Green human resource management (GHRM) has been tagged as one of the surest means of encouraging voluntary workplace proenvironmental behavior (VWPB) among an organization's employees. However, previous studies have not analyzed the mechanism through which this happens and how the VWPB outcomes could differ depending on the employee's job control (JC) level in construction contractor organizations. To this end, this study is aimed at determining how GHRM components can lead to VWPB through environmental awareness (EA) and how the EA-VWPB relationship could differ contingent on the level of employee JC among construction contractor organizations. Data were collected from 478 construction project managers and site managers. The data collected were analyzed with the partial least squares structural equation modeling method. The findings show that all three GHRM practices (green training, green performance management, and green involvement) have significant positive effects on EA, and EA has a significant positive impact on VWPB. In contrast, JC had a negative moderating effect on VWPB, with low JC having a stronger effect. This study contributes to proenvironmental construction practice and fills existing gaps in the literature by showing empirically how GHRM can translate into VWPB through EA and how the EA-VWPB relationship varies depending on the level of JC in construction organizations.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | environmental awareness; green human resource management; job control; voluntary workplace proenvironmental behavior |
| Index terms: | manager, human resource management, structural equation modelling, construction project, partial least square, construction contractor, job control, performance management, construction organization, site manager, environmental awareness |
| Subjects: | performance measurement, management, statistical analysis, environmental behaviour, production management, organization, practitioner |
| Topics: | Quality Management, Sustainability, Project Management, Human Resources, Roles and Professions, Research Practice, Business Strategy |
| Descriptive scope: | 3 PCA |
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