The Role of Employees’ Engagement in the Adoption of Green Supply Chain Practices as Moderated by Environment Attitude: An Empirical Study of the Indian Automobile Industry

Abstract

Green supply chain management (GSCM) has become more and more important to the automobile industry and emerging as a new management mantra owing to various reasons, including the need to become more environmental friendly, cost effective and competitive. There could be several driving forces, including competitive pressure, regulatory pressure, etc., but there exist certain pre-requisites such as the level of employee engagement with the environment attitude. When these characteristics are deeply rooted in the organizational culture, they may help improve the GSCM practices in the organization. In this connection, this article aims to investigate GSCM practices of the automobile industry in India and also examines the moderating role of environment attitude in the employees’ engagement to understand whether it leads to an improvement in the GSCM practices. This study is important because there is no empirical research evidence on how the interaction between environment attitude and the employees’ engagement in the automobile industry alters GSCM practices.

Multiple pathways linking environmental knowledge and awareness to employees’ green behavior

“…In the twenty-first century, the disease is climate change, the patient is the earth and the infectious agent is humankind (Robertson and Barling, 2015). Organizations and their employees are one of the factors that have a great impact on environmental protection (Buysse and Verbeke, 2003; Sharma, 2014). Hence, in recent years, identifying the elements which lead to EGB has become significant (Norton et al , 2015).…”

“…Organizational commitment can play a predictive role in organizational outcomes such as job performance, organizational citizenship behavior, actual turnover and desire for leaving the organization (Mathieu and Zajac, 1990; Wong et al , 2002). Taylor (1992) and Welford (1992) claim that general management of an organization should be committed to develop right environmental attitudes (Sharma, 2014).…”

“…Environmental issues, such as climate changes, ozone depletion, deforestation, depravation of ecosystems and loss of biodiversity, are among the matters that have attracted a lot of attention. As the role of businesses in environmental protection becomes more prominent, companies need to be more responsible toward the environment; companies should adapt their business activities to include environmental protection and appropriate management of natural resources (Buysse and Verbeke, 2003; Sharma, 2014). According to Dyllick and Hockerts (2002), companies ought to maintain and develop their economic, social and environmental assets for creating sustainable communities.…”

Linking Environmentally Specific Transformational Leadership and Environmental Concern to Green Behaviour at Work

“…Over the past few years, organizational researchers have paid considerable attention to the concept of green behaviour at work (Norton, Zacher & Ashkanasy, 2012; Renwick, Redman & Maguire, 2013; Sharma, 2014; Unsworth, Dmitrieva & Adriasola, 2013). Possibly, the attention given to green behaviour at work spring from the need for employees to use resources wisely and responsibly; protect the environment; and eliminate toxins that harm people in the workplace (Alfred & Adam, 2009).…”

How Environmental Knowledge Management Promotes Employee Green Behavior: An Empirical Study

“…As public concern about environmental protection has been growing in recent years [ 1 , 2 ], many organizations and institutes have raised awareness of environmental practices by adapting their businesses to take charge of appropriate natural resource management and environmental management [ 3 , 4 ]. However, most of them neglect to guide employees to perform green behavior but concentrate only on the improvement of technical changes.…”