Pro-Environmental Behaviours among Frontliner Employees in Oil and Gas Industry: Does Environmental Work Culture Really Matters?
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Environmental behaviours, Employee perceptions, Organizational support, Supply chain management, Supervisory support, Work cultureAbstract
Abstract. This study investigates the employee perceptions of organizational environmental initiatives and their impact on pro-pro-environmental behaviors and frequency of involvement in upstream oil and gas companies in Malaysia, such as the Production Arrangement Contractor and Service Provider Company. The study also examines a new area where environmental work culture acts as a moderator. Analyzed using SmartPLS, our findings demonstrate that supervisory support for environmental initiatives and environmental training has a positive effect on employee perception of organizational support for pro-pro-environmental behaviors. In contrast, the organization's rewards for pro-environmental behaviors do not have a significant impact on it. Following this, the employees' perceptions of organizational support for pro-environmental behaviors positively affect employee engagement in pro-environmental behaviors in both forms of employees' frequency of involvement and employees' innovative pro-environmental behaviors. The findings discovered that environmental work culture moderates the relationship of the effect of the organization's support practices on employee perception of organizational support for pro-environmental behaviors. This study is one of the first attempts to investigate the relationship between the pro-environmental behaviors within the upstream firms in the oil and gas industry. The findings are useful for practitioners in terms of exerting pro-environmental behaviors and facilitating employees' pro-environmental behaviors in the upstream oil and gas management sector.
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Caesens, G., Stinglhamber, F., Demoulin, S., & De Wilde, M. (2017). Perceived organizational support and employees’ well-being: The mediating role of organizational dehumanization. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 26(4), 527-540.
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Covin, T. J., & Kilmann, R. H. (1990). Participant perceptions of positive and negative influences on large-scale change. Group & Organization Studies, 15(2), 233-248.
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Del Brío, J. Á., Fernández, E., & Junquera, B. (2007). Customer interaction in environmental innovation: the case of cloth diaper laundering. Service Business, 1(2), 141-158.
Dhamija, P., Gupta, S., & Bag, S. (2019). Measuring of job satisfaction: the use of quality of work life factors. Benchmarking: An International Journal, 26(3), 871-892.
Eisenberger, R., Rockstuhl, T., Shoss, M. K., Wen, X., & Dulebohn, J. (2019). Is the employee–organization relationship dying or thriving? A temporal meta-analysis. Journal of Applied Psychology, 104(8), 1036.
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Fernández, E., Junquera, B., & Ordiz, M. (2003). Organizational culture and human resources in the environmental issue: a review of the literature. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 14(4), 634-656.
Fornell, C., & Larcker, D. F. (1981). Evaluating structural equation models with unobservable variables and measurement error. Journal of marketing research, 18(1), 39-50.
Gilbreath, B., & Karimi, L. (2012). Supervisor behavior and employee presenteeism. International Journal of leadership studies, 7(1), 114-131.
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Jabbour, C. J. C. (2015). Environmental training and environmental management maturity of Brazilian companies with ISO14001: empirical evidence. Journal of Cleaner Production, 96, 331-338.
Jain, R., & Hyde, A. (2020). Impact of social support on occupational stress, anxiety and job performance. Our Heritage, 68(30), 10113-10131.
Jensen, M. C., & Heckling, W. H. (1995). Specific and general knowledge, and organizational structure. Journal of applied corporate finance, 8(2), 4-18.
Kazmi, R., Amjad, S., & Khan, D. (2008). Occupational stress and its effect on job performance. A case study of medical house officers of district Abbottabad. J Ayub Med Coll Abbottabad, 20(3), 135-139.
Kline, R. B. (2015). Principles and practice of structural equation modeling. Guilford publications.
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Mingliang, Z. (2020). China’s Development of Public Goods in the South China Sea Islands. In China’s Globalization and the Belt and Road Initiative (pp. 101-122). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
Montabon, F., Sroufe, R., & Narasimhan, R. (2007). An examination of corporate reporting, environmental management practices and firm performance. Journal of operations management, 25(5), 998-1014.
Nazir, S., Shafi, A., Atif, M. M., Qun, W., & Abdullah, S. M. (2019). How organization justice and perceived organizational support facilitate employees’ innovative behavior at work. Employee Relations: The International Journal, 41(6), 1288-1311.
Park, J., Sarkis, J., & Wu, Z. (2010). Creating integrated business and environmental value within the context of China’s circular economy and ecological modernization. Journal of Cleaner Production, 18(15), 1494-1501.
Paillé, P., & Meija-Morelos, J. H. (2019). Organisational support is not always enough to encourage employee environmental performance. The moderating role of exchange ideology. Journal of Cleaner Production, 220, 1061-1070.
Rasool, S. F., Wang, M., Zhang, Y., & Samma, M. (2020). Sustainable work performance: the roles of workplace violence and occupational stress. International journal of environmental research and public health, 17(3), 912.
Raineri, N., & Paillé, P. (2016). Linking corporate policy and supervisory support with environmental citizenship behaviors: The role of employee environmental beliefs and commitment. Journal of Business Ethics, 137(1), 129-148.
Rachman, M., & Sari, N. P. (2019). Reformation of Public Service in the Perspective of Human Resource Development and Reinforcement of Organizational Culture. Revista ESPACIOS, 40(18), 1-11.
Qin, Y., Harrison, J., & Chen, L. (2019). A framework for the practice of corporate environmental responsibility in China. Journal of Cleaner Production, 235, 426-452.
Rhoades, L., & Eisenberger, R. (2002). Perceived organizational support: a review of the literature. Journal of applied psychology, 87(4), 698-714.
Sammalisto, K., & Brorson, T. (2008). Training and communication in the implementation of environmental management systems (ISO 14001): a case study at the University of Gävle, Sweden. Journal of Cleaner Production, 16(3), 299-309.
Sekaran, U., & Bougie, R. (2010). Research Methods for Business: A Skill Building Approach. Chichester, West Sussex: John Willey & Sons.
Shanock, L. R., Eisenberger, R., Heggestad, E. D., Malone, G., Clark, L., Dunn, A. M., ... & Woznyj, H. (2019). Treating employees well: The value of organizational support theory in human resource management. The Psychologist-Manager Journal, 22(3-4), 168–191.
Stening, B. W., & Zhang, M. Y. (2007). Methodological challenges confronted when conducting management research in China. International Journal of Cross Cultural Management, 7(1), 121-142.
Tseng, M. L., & Bui, T. D. (2017). Identifying eco-innovation in industrial symbiosis under linguistic preferences: A novel hierarchical approach. Journal of cleaner production, 140, 1376-1389.
Turban, D. B., & Greening, D. W. (1997). Corporate social performance and organizational attractiveness to prospective employees. Academy of management journal, 40(3), 658-672.
Yu, W., Chavez, R., Feng, M., Wong, C. Y., & Fynes, B. (2020). Green human resource management and environmental cooperation: An ability-motivation-opportunity and contingency perspective. International Journal of Production Economics, 219, 224-235.
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Amin, I., Zailani, S., & Rahman, M. K. (2020). Pro-Environmental Behaviours among Frontliner Employees in Oil and Gas Industry: Does Environmental Work Culture Really Matters?. The Asian Journal of Technology Management (AJTM), 13(2), 173–189. https://doi.org/10.12695/ajtm.2020.13.2.6
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