Multiple domains and categories of employee green behaviors:
 more than conservation

We describe a taxonomy of diverse types of workplace behaviors that contribute to or detract from environmental sustainability goals in organizational settings. The Green Five taxonomy was developed using critical incidents methodology and includes 5 major content-based meta-categories of employee green behaviors (EGB): Transforming, Avoiding Harm, Conserving, Influencing Others, and Taking Initiative. We discuss the behavioral and psychological meanings of these meta-categories, as well as their sub-categories. We also highlight key features of the Green Five taxonomy (e.g., it is content-based, it incorporates both positive and negative behaviors, it integrates with general models of job performance). Finally, we review existing measures of employee green behaviors in terms of their coverage of the employee green behavior construct domain. We identify future directions for research and applications.