Abstract
Environmental behavior (EB) is a kind of organizational behavior that seeks to protect the natural environment and conserve resources, such as saving energy, recycling wastes, duplex printing, reducing water use, non-smoking in the workplace, and designing environmentally friendly products. This study aims to identify the degree of environmental behavior practice and examine its constraints in Saudi government agencies. This study is based on a single design of cross-sectional research. 436 responses were collected from employees of government agencies in Saudi Arabia. The study results indicated that the EB practice is generally high in government agencies.Furthermore, the results revealed that female employees in government agencies have no statistical difference from male employees. In other words, the EB practice of men and women in government agencies is equal. The study also found a significant difference between married, unmarried, and divorced groups. Divorced employees report a higher level of EB than other employee groups. However, the study indicated a significant difference between the high school, graduate, and postgraduate groups. In other words, employees with high school education have a higher level of EB. Receiving and not receiving leadership support have a significant difference, whereas employees who received environmental training reported higher levels of EB than others. The outcomes also indicated a difference between the group of employees who have religious values. The outcomes of this study may be of benefit to researchers, regulators, policymakers, managers, and governors. AcknowledgmentThe author thanks the Deanship of Scientific Research at King Saud University for supporting this study.
Highlights
The results indicated that employees who received environmental training reported higher levels of Environmental behavior (EB) than others
The study attempts to examine the level of EB practice in Saudi government agencies
The results found that divorced employees, employees with high school education, employees who receive leadership support and environmental training, and those who embrace Islamic religious values are considerably involved in the practice of EB in government agencies
Summary
Public and private organizations have encouraged employees to adopt environmental concepts and behavior (EB) to conserve the natural environment and resources from pollution due to waste. Employees in organi- Luxembourg to predict the behavioral intention of zations can help reduce environmental pollution residents to conserve water (Liang et al, 2018) and and resource wastage through voluntary environ- understand the beliefs that influence the pro-enmental activities. This study is based on the theory of planned be- employed in Australia and Malaysia to verify the havior (TPB), a psychological theory developed intentions of university students to engage in enby Ajzen (1985) It assumes that an individual’s vironmental activities (Fielding et al, 2008; Mat behavior depends on his intention to perform any et al, 2020).
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