Abstract:
Organisational Citizenship Behaviors towards the Environment (OCBEs), which are
based on individual, voluntary and informal initiatives, can be considered as an
essential ingredient of corporate greening. Based on the existing environmental
management literature on this issue, current study explores the determinants of
managers’ and executives’ OCBEs with special reference to an apparel manufacturing
company in Panadura (ABC Company). Since managerial employees play a vital role
in the factory, they were treated as the target population of this study. There were
around 139 managerial level employees in the company to the date and all the
managerial level employees were being selected as the population according to the
census method.
The objective of this study is to identify the factors impacting on Organisational
Citizenship Behavior towards the Environment of managers and executives of the
selected organisation. Since the research context is apparel industry it would be much
helpful to understand the factors which can improve the OCBE of managerial and
executive level employees. Since the research context is apparel industry it would be
much helpful to understand the factors which can improve the OCBE of managerial
and executive level employees.
Data were collected through standard questionnaires developed by previous
researchers. Minitab 16 and SPSS 21 statistical analytical tools were used to analyse
the data which were collected through the questionnaire survey. A multiple regression
was performed to investigate the impacts of the variables interested.
The conceptual framework suggested the key determinants of OCBE, including
Environmental Values (EV), Affective Commitment (AC), and Perceived
Organisational Support (POS) for Environmental Efforts. Researcher developed three
hypotheses to measure the impact of OCBE on EV, AC and POS. As hypothesised,
regression results indicated that OCBE were positively impact on EV and POS in
respective organisation whilst one hypothesis was rejected.
The study concludes with directions for future researches where future researchers can
conduct a longitudinal data collection method to state these relationshipsmore
accurately. Further, Practical implications were suggested through this study for
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managers who wished to foster green behaviors within their organisation. For example,
managers could informally encourage employees to participate forenvironmental
initiatives to a greater degree in their daily activities by making personal suggestions or
by inviting them to discuss solutions to specific problems.
