The Effects of Environmental Training and Environmental Commitment on Employee Environmental Behavior: The Mediating Role of Environmental Commitment

Abstract

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is exploring the influence mechanism of environmental training on employees’ environmental behavior through empirical research. Design/Methodology/Approach – According to the existing scale variable measurement, adopting the method of questionnaire survey collected online sample data of 201, and the data quality was tested by non-response bias, common method bias analysis, correlation and multi-collinearity, reliability and validity analysis. Then, the research hypothesis was tested by hierarchical regression. Findings – This paper studies environmental training has a significant positive impact on both private and public environmental protection behaviors of employees; environmental commitment has an intermediary effect on the relationship between environmental protection training and employees’ private and public environmental protection behaviors; the gender of employees has no significant regulatory effect on their environmental commitment and their private and public environmental behavior, and the age of employees has no significant regulatory effect on their environmental training and environmental commitment. Research Implications – In the management of this paper, through in-depth study of the impact mechanism of employees’ environmental behavior at the individual level, it makes contribution to the further study of the impact of green human resource management practice at the individual level.