Promoting pro-environmental behaviors like proper waste sorting in the workplace is crucial for organizations seeking to reduce their environmental footprint. This study aims to investigate the role of maximizing decision-making style – the tendency to pursue the optimal alternative – on employees’ waste sorting intentions and behaviors through the lens of the comprehensive action determination model.
Online survey data collected from 374 Chinese employees. The statistical tool SmartPLS 4.0 was used to analyze the data.
The results revealed that maximizing decision-making style positively predicted attitude, personal norm, waste sorting self-efficacy and waste sorting habit, which in turn increased intentions to sort waste properly in the workplace.
The study highlights the role of decision-making style in promoting waste sorting practices among employees and offers significant theoretical implications for understanding individual differences in environmental decision-making. In addition, it provides practical implications for designing effective workplace sustainability initiatives, including insights into social marketing strategies aimed at fostering sustainable behaviors in organizational settings.
