NATURE-LED COMPLACENCY: BIOPHILIC WORK ENVIRONMENTS’ NEGATIVE IMPACT ON PROACTIVE AND PROSOCIAL WORKPLACE BEHAVIORS

dc.contributor.advisorFoulk, Trevoren_US
dc.contributor.authorKim, Hae Lyengen_US
dc.contributor.departmentBusiness and Management: Management & Organizationen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-29T05:41:01Z
dc.date.available2024-06-29T05:41:01Z
dc.date.issued2024en_US
dc.description.abstractWhile existing research has suggested that being in a biophilic work environment (BWE), or environments that incorporate nature and natural elements, would generally have positive implications for employees, our understanding of the potential downside consequences of this contextual setting is underdeveloped. Leveraging insights from Attention Restoration Theory (ART; Kaplan & Kaplan, 1989; Kaplan, 1995) and the biophilia hypothesis (Wilson, 1984), I hypothesize that the natural features of BWEs may draw one’s attention away from tasks at hand and trigger employee complacency, thereby decreasing beneficial workplace behaviors, including proactive behavior and prosocial behavior. Furthermore, I argue that the positive relationship between BWEs and complacency may be stronger for employees who are lower (vs. higher) in mindfulness. Results were mostly supported through three pre-registered studies: 1) an online experiment conducted with working professionals on Prolific Academic, 2) a multi-source field study involving 219 coworker dyads (438 employees) across 111 organizations in the Republic of Korea, and 3) an in-person experiment with undergraduate students at a large eastern U.S. university. Collectively, these studies aim to offer significant insights and implications regarding the consequences of various workplace environments.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/cxfs-9kxu
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/32874
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledOrganizational behavioren_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledBiophilicen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledComplacencyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledMindfulnessen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledProactive behavioren_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledProsocial behavioren_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledWork environmenten_US
dc.titleNATURE-LED COMPLACENCY: BIOPHILIC WORK ENVIRONMENTS’ NEGATIVE IMPACT ON PROACTIVE AND PROSOCIAL WORKPLACE BEHAVIORSen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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