The roles of supervisory support behaviors and environmental policy in employee "ecoinitiatives" at leading-edge European companies

We assessed the relationships of environmental policy and supervisory support behaviors to employee environmental initiatives in leading-edge companies. We developed a behaviorally anchored rating scale instrument based on "learning organization" behaviors. In a survey conducted in European companies, employees used the scale we developed to assess their supervisors' daily behaviors. We analyzed the results using logit econometric analysis and other statistical tools to determine which environmental policy factors and management support behaviors positively related to employee "ecoinitiatives."