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Empowering Employee Sustainability: Perceived Organizational Support Toward the Environment

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  • Eric Lamm
  • Jennifer Tosti-Kharas
  • Cynthia King

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This paper contributes to the ongoing discussion of sustainability behaviors by introducing the construct of perceived organizational support toward the environment (POS-E). We propose and empirically test an integrated model whereby we test the association of POS-E with employees’ organizational citizenship behaviors toward the environment (OCB-E) as well as to job attitudes. Results indicated that POS-E was positively related to OCB-E, job satisfaction, organizational identification, and psychological empowerment, and negatively related to turnover intentions. We also found that psychological empowerment partially mediated the relationship between POS-E and the dependent variables. We discuss the theoretical implications as well as practical implications for managers seeking to encourage sustainability in their organizations. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015

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  • Eric Lamm & Jennifer Tosti-Kharas & Cynthia King, 2015. "Empowering Employee Sustainability: Perceived Organizational Support Toward the Environment," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 128(1), pages 207-220, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:jbuset:v:128:y:2015:i:1:p:207-220
    DOI: 10.1007/s10551-014-2093-z
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