Workplace Spirituality and Pro-Environmental Behavior: The Role of Employee Engagement and Environmental Awareness

Miss Ayesha Latif

Workplace Spirituality and Pro-Environmental Behavior: The Role of Employee Engagement and Environmental Awareness

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A key challenge facing organizations is how to encourage employees to engage in proenvironmental behaviors. Workplace spirituality has been conceptualized as offering new insights into how individuals experience a deeper level of intrinsic work motivation and engagement. Based on a survey of 349 nurses, we found that workplace spirituality was significantly associated with nurses’ pro-environmental behavior and that employee engagement indirectly affects the relationship between workplace spirituality and pro-environmental behavior. The results suggest that environmental awareness moderated the effect of workplace spirituality on pro-environmental behavior of nurses. Managers of nursing services should consider workplace spirituality and its positive influence on nurses’ outcomes in order to improve their performance and, subsequently, the healthcare system.

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Miss Ayesha Latif. 2018. "Workplace Spirituality and Pro-Environmental Behavior: The Role of Employee Engagement and Environmental Awareness". Global Journal of Management and Business Research - A: Administration & Management GJMBR-A Volume 18 (GJMBR Volume 18 Issue A5).

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Submission ReceivedDecember 10, 2017
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Country: Pakistan

Subject: Global Journal of Management and Business Research

Authors: Miss Ayesha Latif, Miss Sidra Aziz (PhD/Dr. count: 0)

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