Employee pro-environmental behaviour at workplace in Malaysia: The role of organizational and individual determinants
List of Authors
  • Ainul Azreen Adam , Hamidah Md Yusop

Keyword
  • pro-environmental behaviour (PEB), green HRM, environmental knowledge, innovation attributes

Abstract
  • The need to adopt green practices in the current business landscape is highly imperative just by looking at the seriousness of the effects of climate change and world economies and organizations have tried to transform their employees’ behaviour and business practices into “green practices” for the purpose of mitigating the environmental impacts which will directly help the organizations to achieve environmental sustainability by transforming these organizations into “green organizations” through formal policies and procedures imposed, activities implemented, and technologies adopted. More importantly, employees’ discretionary acts and willingness to weigh their acts with regards to environmental impacts and proactively suggesting initiatives and activities to the management for the sake of improvement of energy efficiency processes that brings significant impact on organizational environmental performance. Continuous industrial expansion, population growth and the low uptake on the green practices in Malaysia have put tremendous pressure on the environment and resulted in excessive environmental footprints from big corporations. If not addressed, environmental degradation may hinder further economic progress, compromising the prosperity built over centuries, and threaten the life across the planet. Therefore, it is suggested that inclusive economy is made possible and maybe the only viable option going forward. One of the ways is to shape employees’ pro-environmental behaviour (PEB) that will help to accelerate the green practices implementation across organizations. This conceptual paper will introduce several determinants to measures employees’ pro-environmental behaviour at the workplace that can be used as a guideline for organizations in Malaysia to encourage employee PEB at the workplace.

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