Validation of the Employee Pro-Environmental Attitudes and Behavior Scale

Organizations are faced with the challenge of reducing their impact on climate change and for this reason also strive to increase pro-environmental attitudes and behavior of their employees. To make these attitudinal and behavioral changes measurable, the Employee Pro-Environmental Attitudes and Behavior Scale was developed. The scale represents the first instrument focusing on the measurement of employee pro-environmental attitudes and pro-environmental behavior. The aim of the scale is the valid and reliable measurement of these constructs. For this purpose, a total of five studies were conducted in the present work to generate items and to test content, construct, and criterion validity. On the basis of this procedure an efficient scale was developed, which matches with the psychometric quality criteria and measures employee pro-environmental attitudes and employee pro-environmental behavior with six items each. The scale complies to the requirements for use in scientific studies but is particularly suitable for use in organizational applications due to its small number of items.