VALIDATION OF THE CONCEPTS OF AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP AND OCBE FOR THE SUSTAINABILITY OF THE ORGANIZATION IN SRI LANKAN CONTEXT

Abstract

Nowadays contemporary firms undertake greater environmental responsibilities due to huge pressures from various stakeholders, and globally, societies are becoming increasingly aware of the negative consequences of environmental degradation on human health, ecosystems, and sustainability of life on earth. The notion of organizational citizenship behaviour toward environment (OCBE) emerged during the last two decades and employees may be not clear as their role in environmental improvements due to unsure of the formal rewards associated with them. Therefore, the necessity of human behavioural modifications to achieve pro environmental behaviours is well recognized by the scholars. However, to date scholars of organizational behaviour have been paid less attention in discussion about how to promote environmentally responsible organizations. Therefore, the general objective of this paper is to conceptualize the notions of OCBE and authentic leadership and validate it in Sri Lankan Context. Data were gathered through a survey by using a structured questionnaire from public sector utility organizations and 256 government workers in Sri Lanka. As per the discussion basically, two main criteria called reliability and validity have to be achieved to confirm the goodness of the measure. Internal reliability and composite reliability scales were commonly employed to asses construct reliability of the intended constructs. Convergent validity achieved through Average Variance Extracted and factor loadings. Discriminant validity evaluated by assessing the cross loadings, Fornel-Larcker criterion, and Heterotrait- Monotrait Ratio of correlation (HTMT). All validity and reliability indicators including items‟ loadings, composite reliability, and average variance extracted (AVE), and square roots of the AVE and HTMT correlations have demonstrated high coefficients. Hence, findings demonstrated that the authentic leadership and OCBE constructs could be used for potential researches in Sri Lankan context. Using the PLS technique, this study provides significant contribution to knowledge by validating and conceptualizing the concepts.