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J Bus Ethics (2012) 109:431–445 DOI 10.1007/s10551-011-1138-9 Organizational Citizenship Behaviour for the Environment: Measurement and Validation • Olivier Boiral Pascal Paille ´ Received: 11 March 2011 / Accepted: 28 November 2011 / Published online: 9 December 2011  Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011 Abstract While the importance of employee initiatives Introduction for improving the environmental practices and perfor- mance of organizations has been clearly established in the The greening of organizations is not only based on the literature, the precise nature of these initiatives has rarely formal management systems, activities or technologies. been examined (particularly the issue of their discretionary Discretionary initiatives made by employees—such as or mandatory nature). The role of organizational citizen- suggesting improvements to energy ef?ciency processes, ship behaviour in environmental management remains sorting and recycling waste or setting up a green commit- largely unexplored. The main objectives of this paper were tee—can also have a signi?cant impact on environmental to propose and validate an instrument for measuring performance (Ramus and Steger 2000; Andersson and organizational citizenship behaviour for the environment Bateman 2000; Walley and Stubbs 2000). As noted by (OCBE). Exploratory (Study 1, N = 228) and con?rmatory Daily et al. (2009, p. 3), ‘‘the success of important envi- (Study 2, N = 651) analyses were conducted to examine ronmental programs may hinge on employee behaviour the factor structure of OCBEs. The factor structure that that is beyond the scope of formal reward and performance emerged from Study 1 indicated that the three main types evaluation systems.’’ Paradoxically, in spite of its impor- of OCBEs were eco-initiatives, eco-civic engagement and tance, individual and voluntary behaviour has rarely been eco-helping. The factor structure found in Study 1 was empirically examined in the literature on...