As humans respond to climate change, it is important to understand the role that organizations can play in influencing proenvironmental behavior (PEB) by employees. This study explored the extent to which individual motivation and organizational climate are related to PEB. The results suggest that both individual motivation (R2 = .18 to .45) and organizational climate perceptions (R2 = .07 to .49) are related to PEBs inside and outside of work. Furthermore, results indicated that organizational climate incrementally predicted PEB beyond individual motivation both at work (ΔR2 = .13 to .17) and outside of work (ΔR2 = .02 to .13). The findings suggest that organizations could have an important role in the human response to climate change. Practical implications for organizations, the assessment of organizational climate for climate sustainability, and suggestions for researchers and practitioners are discussed.
A life's work is not a series of stepping-stones onto which we calmly place our feet, but more like an ocean crossing where there is no path, only a heading, a direction, which, of itself, is in conversation with the elements.David Whyte, Crossing the Unknown Sea
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