Elizabethtown College Associate Professor of Management Cristina Ciocirlan recently had her peer-reviewed article, “Have me do, and I’ll always be true: Exploring the match between green employees and their jobs,” accepted for publication in the Journal of Cleaner Production (an Elsevier journal).
“I am honored to be published in this peer-reviewed Elsevier journal,” Ciocirlan said. “ I am happy to see that the research community is paying more and more attention to the unique traits of green employees and their behaviors in organizations. There is much more to be explored, and I feel tremendously fortunate to be able to contribute to this emerging and vital research field.”
Ciocirlan’s article analyzes the match between green employees and their jobs, by addressing important questions, such as: Who are green employees? What do they care about? What happens when their values do not match organizational values?
“I find that green employees are different than other employees, in that they have an environmental identity, a desire to help the environment through work, and strong ecological beliefs,” Ciocirlan said. “These unique traits suggest that organizations must adapt by greening their job designs to improve person-job fit.” The Journal of Cleaner Production is an international, transdisciplinary journal focusing on Cleaner Production, Environmental, and Sustainability research and practice. Through published articles, the journal aims at helping societies become more sustainable.