APS

31st APS Annual Convention · 2019

Do People Want to Work for a Company That Greenwashes?

Washington, DC · May 2019

Poster · Industrial/Organizational

Session: Poster Session IX

Authors

Abstract

We investigated whether job seekers would work for a company that uses greenwashing. Greenwashing is a marketing strategy to appear more environmentally friendly than one is. In an experimental online study (N=117), we found that people evaluated the job offer less favourably if the company had a negative environmental performance.

Environment