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Go green is the current thought of every organization, since the concern has increased towards
greening the world. However, there is still a puzzle that to what extent green attitudes leads to
green behavior of employees. Thus, the present study investigates the impact of green attitude
on green working behavior among the employees from Sri-Lankan licensed Commercial bank
with the integration of Conservation of Resource Theory. In fact, environmentally sustainable
green behaviors of employees have become crucial in the organizations to achieve a
competitive advantage. On the other hand, having employees who have environmental concern
in their attitude is much expected by employers. Further, having green working behaviors in
the workplace is more vital to preserve the nature. Since the little attention was paid on green
working behavior, this study sheds the new light in Sri Lankan context with the moderating
effect of abusive supervision. A survey strategy was used for this study and data were collected
from conveniently chosen 444 bankers working in licensed commercial banks. Smart PLS 3.0
was utilized to analyze the data. The results unveil that individuals with a high green attitude
are more likely to have high green working behaviors. This is the first study to incorporate
abusive supervision into green variables especially in the banking sector where abusive
supervision weaken the impact of green attitudes on green working behavior. The theoretical
and practical implications have discoursed at the end of the paper |
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