Does organisational sustainability policies affect environmental attitude of employees? The missing link of green work climate perceptions

Abstract

AbstractAmid the forbidding actions of humankind on environment, contemporary organisations are increasingly developing and implementing sustainable policies for encouraging employee green behaviour. Work climate perceptions may serve as a psychological mechanism that relate to such organisational policies and employee behaviour. Considering this notion, the present study aims to examine the association between perceived presence of organisational sustainability polices and employee report of their environmental attitude (proactive and task related green behaviour) with the mediating role of perceptions of green work climate (orientation of organisations and co‐workers). The findings based on survey of 183 employees indicated that perceptions of green orientations of organisation and co‐workers differentially mediated the link between perceived presence of organisational sustainability polices and employee proactive and task‐related green behaviour. These findings advocate the prominence of relevant psychological mechanism that link organisational sustainability policies with green behaviour of employees and extend the literature on efficacy of workplace sustainability policies.