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Management Commitment to the Ecological Environment and Employees: Implications for Employee Attitudes and Citizenship Behaviors
Human Relations (2015)
  • Berrin Erdogan, Portland State University
  • Tayla N. Bauer, Portland State University
  • Sully Taylor, Portland State University
Abstract

In this article, we examine the implications of perceived management commitment to the ecological environment for employee attitudes and behaviors. Following deontic justice theory, which suggests that individuals are capable of feeling and expressing moral outrage when others are treated poorly, even if such treatment has no direct implications for themselves, we expected that employee attitudes and behaviors would be related to perceived organizational treatment of the environment. At the same time, we expected that these reactions would be moderated by how employees themselves were treated by the organization, in the form of perceived organizational support. In a study of employees and supervisors in a textile firm in Turkey, the results indicate that perceived organizational support moderated the effects of management commitment to the environment on organizational justice, organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behaviors targeting the environment.

Publication Date
November, 2015
Citation Information
Berrin Erdogan, Tayla N. Bauer and Sully Taylor. "Management Commitment to the Ecological Environment and Employees: Implications for Employee Attitudes and Citizenship Behaviors" Human Relations Vol. 68 Iss. 11 (2015)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/talya_bauer/28/