Purpose of research: The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between corporate environmental strategy and

pro-environmental or green psychological climate in organization between-persons; further, the research will also investigate
whether green psychological climate moderates the within-person relationship of employees daily green behavioral intentions
and their green behavior on the following day.

What is meant by green behavior: Ones and Dilchert (2012b) define EGB, a workplace-specific form of green
behavior, as scalable actions and behaviors that employees engage to contribute to environmental sustainability (p.
87). Thus, EGB includes activities such as turning off lights when leaving an office (i.e., saving energy), using
teleconference facilities instead of traveling to meetings (i.e., using resources efficiently), editing documents
electronically instead of printing them out (i.e., avoiding waste), printing drafts on scrap paper (i.e., recycling), and
reporting leaks in the bathroom (i.e., conserving water; Norton, Parker, et al., 2015a; Ones & Dilchert, 2012b).

Hypothesis 1: Daily green behavioral intentions are positively related to next-day EGB

Hypothesis 2: Green psychological climate is positively related to next-day EGB.

Hypothesis 3: Green psychological climate moderates the positive relationship between green behavioral intentions
and next-day EGB, such that the relationship is stronger for employees with a more positive green psychological
climate compared to employees with a less positive green psychological climate.

Hypothesis 4: Corporate environmental strategy is positively related to green psychological climate.

Hypothesis 5: Corporate environmental strategy has an indirect effect on next-day EGB through (a) green
psychological climate and (b) the interaction between green behavioral intentions and green psychological climate.

Methodology:

Participants comprised 74 full-time employees in Australia, including 46 (62.2 per cent) women and 28 (37.8 per
cent) men. We employed a quantitative daily diary study to test our hypotheses. Diary studies allow investigating
predictors of daily work outcomes at the within-person (or intra-individual) level and at the between-persons (or
inter-individual) level (Fisher, 2008; Fisher & To, 2012; Ohly, Sonnentag, Niessen, & Zapf, 2010). We posted
information about the study on social media platforms such as LinkedIn and Facebook and asked full-time
employees to express their interest in participating. The authors recruited all participants who were not asked to
recruit others. Researchers argue that such a convenience sampling strategy has certain advantages (e.g., it increases
the heterogeneity of the sample; Demerouti & Rispens, 2014), and that convenience sampling is appropriate in
research that aims to generalize theory (as compared to sample characteristics) to the broader population (Highhouse
& Gillespie, 2009).

We collected survey data from 74 employees across 10 workdays.

Discussion

Consistent with our expectations, we found a small positive relationship between green behavioral intentions and
next-day EGB at the within-person level (Hypothesis 1).

While we did not find a direct relationship between green psychological climate and next-day EGB
(Hypothesis 2)

this result was consider within an interaction between green behavioral intentions and green psychological climate in
predicting next-day EGB (Hypothesis 3).

Finally, extending previous research at the between-persons level (Dumont et al., 2016; Norton et al., 2014), we
found that corporate environmental strategy is positively related to green psychological climate (Hypothesis 4)

There is a positive indirect effect on next-day EGB through the interaction between green behavioral intentions and
green
psychological climate (Hypothesis 5b); but not through green psychological climate by itself (Hypothesis 5a).