Green Human Resource Management, Perceived Organizational Support and Organizational Citizenship Behavior towards Environment in Malaysian Petroleum Refineries

Abstract

Organizational Citizenship Behavior towards Environment (OCBE) is a construct that is increasingly being studied to explain voluntary green behaviors by employees. Performance of OCBEs by employees has been associated with positive outcomes such as improved environmental sustainability of organizations. Hence, promoting more of these behaviors is important for organizations both from an environmental and corporate sustainability perspective. Several studies have examined the influence of Green Human Resource Management (Green HRM) and Perceived Organizational Support (POS) on Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) however, there are still calls for more research into the influence of all these three variables; POS and Green HRM on OCB towards environment. The target respondents are executives in middle level management from the petroleum refineries operating in Peninsular Malaysia. Fixed-alternatives questionnaires are used as the research instrument in this study. The data from pilot study were tested and analyzed by using SPSS to compute results namely. The expected result is that there is a positive significant relationship between the independent variables; Green Human Resource Management (Green HRM), Perceived Organizational Support (POS) and dependent variable Organizational Citizenship Behavior towards environment (OCBE). This study provides insights for regulators and policymakers on the extent to which practices and interventions affect Organization Citizenship Behavior on Environment in petroleum refineries operating in Malaysia.