The Role of Pro-environmental Attitude Towards Employee Green Behavior: The Mediating and Moderating Role of Motivational States and Green Work Climate Perceptions

Abstract

Employee green behavior is a kind of environmentally friendly working environment that forms a key foundation for the execution of a company's current plan for sustainable growth. How does the pro-environmental attitude of an employee affect how they do their activities? We investigated the connection between the pro-environmental attitudes and employee green behavior and the functions of encouraging motivational states and green work climate perceptions in order to obtain an answer to this issue. The results show that the employee green behavior of employees was favorably linked and mediated by controlled and autonomous motivations with environmental views. Furthermore, this research found that green work climate perceptions have moderating role on both controlled and autonomous motivations. Finally, we examine the theoretical and practical implications of our results.

Understanding how economic conditions and natural disasters shape environmental attitudes

“…In general, having a secondary or tertiary education, earning a higher income and being a woman are all factors that are positively correlated with proenvironmental attitudes (Torgler, Garcia-Valiñas and Macintyre, 2008 [11]; Zelezny, Chua and Aldrich, 2000[12]; Casaló and Escario, 2018 [13]; Marquart-Pyatt, 2008 [10]; Meyer, 2015 [14]; Lübke, 2021 [15]; Olofsson and Öhman, 2006[16]). In contrast, the effect of age on environmental attitudes is mixed (Lübke, 2021[15]; Poortinga et al, 2011[17]; Wang, Hao and Liu, 2021 [18]).…”

“…Some scholars argue that climate change denial increases with age (Lübke, 2021[15]; Liere and Dunlap, 1980[45]; Poortinga et al, 2011[17]) in part because older people are more integrated in the existing social structures and may therefore have more to lose when changes are implemented (Poortinga et al, 2019[9]). While others argue that older people are more likely to have pro-environmental attitudes and participate in pro-environmental behaviour (Wang, Hao and Liu, 2021 [18]) such as conserving natural resources and reducing pollution (M. Wiernik, S. Ones and Dilchert, 2013 [55]) because they would like to leave a lasting legacy for future generations (Warburton and Gooch, 2007[56]; Frumkin, Fried and Moody, 2012 [57]) and/or because they would like to improve environmental conditions for health reasons (Wang, Hao and Liu, 2021 [18]).…”