Employees’ Organizational Identity and Unethical Pro-Organizational Behavior: A Micro-Perspective on Corporate Carbon Emissions

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Abstract

This study sampled 585 employees, revealing an inverted U-shaped relationship between employees' organizational identity and their carbon emissions UPB. This suggests that an increase in employees’ organizational identity enhances their carbon emissions UPB, but once a certain threshold is reached, it reduces their carbon emissions UPB. Furthermore, long-term interest concerns, leader-member exchange (LMX) relationships, and perceived enterprise competition moderated this relationship. Specifically, the inverted U-shaped relationship was significant in groups with low long-term interest concerns or high LMX relationships, but not in those with high long-term interest concerns or low LMX relationships. Additionally, the inverse U-shaped relationship was significant in both high and low perceived enterprise competition. This study pioneers an exploration of UPB in the environmental domain, extending the examination of corporate carbon emissions to the individual level. It underscores the crucial role of employee attitudes and behaviors in effectively reducing corporate carbon emissions.

Authors

• Maoxin Ye, Southeast University

• Chuanjun Liu