The Relationship between Ethical Emotions and Green Citizenship Behavior: The Role of Employee Environmental Commitment and Managers' Supportive Beliefs

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between ethical feelings and green citizenship behavior with respect to the role of environmental commitment of employees and supportive beliefs of managers. This research is based on the model of structural equations in terms of applied purpose and in terms of descriptive-correlation method. The statistical population of the study includes 10,500 employees of active companies in industrial towns of Golestan province. The sample size was estimated and selected using Krejcie and Morgan table of 371 people based on simple random sampling. Data were collected using standard questionnaires. Formal and content validity were confirmed by academic experts and reliability above 0.70 by Cronbach's alpha test. Descriptive statistics and structural equation modeling were used to analyze the data using SPSS software version 2 and Smart-PLS version 2.3. The results of path analysis showed that ethical feelings have a direct and significant relationship with employees' environmental commitment and green citizenship behavior. There is a direct and significant relationship between employees' environmental commitment and green citizenship behavior. Also, the adjustment coefficient at a significant level of less than 5% indicates that managers 'supportive beliefs moderate the relationship between employees' environmental commitment and green citizenship behavior. It seems that the relationship between moral feelings and the extent of its impact on green citizenship behavior is important and there is a significant relationship between them and the results of this study will help improve perceptions of the factors that cause employee involvement in green citizenship behaviors.