Empowering Employee Sustainability: Perceived Organizational Support Toward the Environment

Eric Lamm (), Jennifer Tosti-Kharas () and Cynthia King ()

Journal of Business Ethics, 2015, vol. 128, issue 1, 207-220

Abstract: This paper contributes to the ongoing discussion of sustainability behaviors by introducing the construct of perceived organizational support toward the environment (POS-E). We propose and empirically test an integrated model whereby we test the association of POS-E with employees’ organizational citizenship behaviors toward the environment (OCB-E) as well as to job attitudes. Results indicated that POS-E was positively related to OCB-E, job satisfaction, organizational identification, and psychological empowerment, and negatively related to turnover intentions. We also found that psychological empowerment partially mediated the relationship between POS-E and the dependent variables. We discuss the theoretical implications as well as practical implications for managers seeking to encourage sustainability in their organizations. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015

Keywords: Corporate social responsibility; Environment; Extra-role behaviors; Organizational citizenship behavior; Perceived organizational support; Psychological empowerment; Sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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