Abstract:
Sustainability is a major global concern and there has been an increased pressure on
organtzations from the stakeholders to broaden the focus of business performance
beyond the financial performance. Companies should have a balance among financial,
social and environmental perfonnance in order to be competitive and to survive in the
long term. Committed employees are the key asset of every organization and
organizations can engage employees in improving their sustainability performance.
In this context, the purpose of the present study is to investigate the relationships
among environmental aspects of employees and sustainability performance with
respect to green behaviour as a mediating variable. The statistical population included
the employees of five selected commercial banks. In total, 236 questionnaires were
distributed among relevant employees, out of which 173 questionnaires were returned
and analyzed using bivariate and multivariate analyses.
The findings of the study revealed that there are strong positive and significant
relationships among environmental knowledge and awareness, environmental attitude,
or ganizational environmental support, employee green behaviour and sustainability
performance. Similarly, environmental knowledge and awareness, envfuonmental
attitude and organizational environmental support separately have a significant and
positive indirect effect on sustainability performance through employee green
behaviour.
The findings. of the study are expected to help both the researchers and practitioners.
This study adds empirical research on how banks can implement sustainable practices
into their operations by involving their employees and attempts to fiIl the research
gaps exist in the related topic. In addition, results of the current study can provide
practical implications for organizations' top managers to develop eflective tools and
motivate their subordinates to implement environmentally friendly behaviours to
enhance sustainability performance as this examines how to improve employees'
environmentally friendly behaviour by exploring their antecedents.
