Employee Environmental Capability and Its Relationship with Corporate Culture

Eun-Jung Woo and Eungoo Kang
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Eun-Jung Woo: Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Program in Environmental Education, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Korea
Eungoo Kang: Business and Technology, DBA, Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55404, USA

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 16, 1-22

Abstract: Due to rapid industrial developments and the effects of the economic revolution such as high production rates and non-ecofriendly supply systems, environmental pollution has been observed in recent years and environmental issues are increasingly becoming a concern on the planet. For this reason, there is little doubt that business organizations have been forced more and more to implement green business strategies for stakeholders, facing the necessity to improve their employees’ environmental performance. Using 461 US employees in the environmental related industries, we found empirical evidence between employees’ green performance, organizational culture and adaptability capability. Finally, the present study suggests two main corporate elements for green policy makers in eco-friendly organizations that the alignment of firm environmental strategy with strategic human resources (HR) should include (1) an organizational culture that supports employee green practices and (2) employee adaptability competency that enables workers to respond to the evolving environmental challenges as main component of analysis.

Keywords: environmental performance; adaptability competency; corporate culture (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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