Assessing the determinants of supervisor's organizational citizenship behaviors for the environment

• Autor(a) principal: Henriques, Inês Isabel Alves Joaquim
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/27566
• topic: Pro-environmental behavior; Green organizational climate; Comportamento pró-ambiental; Teoria da ação planeada; Clima organizacional verde

Over the last few years, concerns about climate change have been increasing. Organizations are intrinsically involved in implementing green strategies to respond to their environmental impact, as they contribute both to the causes and its solutions. The present study aims to understand the gap in the literature of how these green efforts from the organizations allied with individual variables of the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) can encourage supervisors’ Organizational Citizenship Behavior for the Environment (OCBEs). Through an online survey, data was collected from 72 supervisors working in the hospitality industry with the intention to analyze the relationship between organizational green climate and the supervisors’ OCBEs, mediated by the TPB variables (subjective norms, attitude and perceived behavioral control). The results confirmed this relationship. The perceived organizational green climate positively increases the mediating effect of the TPB variables, subjective norms, attitude and perceived behavioral control, thereby increasing the intention of supervisors to implement OCBEs. This study’s findings and theoretical grounds shed new light in the organizational and individual factors that encourage supervisors’ OCBES. Furthermore, it provides practical implications for organizations to incentive pro-environmental behaviors to increase environmental sustainability in the workplace.