What motivates employees to be more environmentally-friendly while doing their jobs?
When people care about the environment and believe their organisation does too, they are more likely to adjust how they work to try to reduce their environmental impact.
Our colleague PhD candidate Brian Wagner talks about what he and co-authors Ellen van der Werff and Linda Steg found when studying this subject in their recent paper.
Find this paper – along with all of our most recent research – on our publications page!
Values at work: Understanding how individual and perceived organisational values relate to employees’ motivation and pro-environmental behaviour at work
Brian Wagner, Ellen van der Werff, Linda Steg
May 2025
Journal of Environmental Psychology
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102547