Bridging Climate Awareness and Green Actions: The Role of Employee Psychological States in Fostering Pro-Environmental Behaviors

Abstract

The study examines how climate change awareness impacts pro-environmental work behavior in organizations through three proactive psychological states. The study results suggest that climate change awareness increases pro-environmental work behaviors through three psychological states (environmental self-efficacy, environmental accountability, and environmental passion). In addition, green pay and rewards enhance employees’ psychological states toward pro-environmental work behavior. This paper revealed how climate change awareness influences pro-environmental work behavior by affecting employees’ proactive psychosocial states. In addition, the multilevel study explains how individual and organizational variables interact to influence personal initiatives toward environmentally friendly work behaviors.