The Study of Factors Impacting on Organisational Citizenship Behavior towards the Environment (OCBE) of Managers and Executives

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 Copyright © ICSUSL-Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka 2017 70 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.