Employees’ proenvironmental behaviors (PEBs) are important to the success of corporate sustainability initiatives. Seeking to understand these behaviors, we tested a model of the determinants of PEBs. Using data from 294 employees in China, we examined the links between organizational commitment to sustainability, managerial transformational leadership on environmental issues, employees’ extrinsic and autonomous motivation, and employees’ PEBs. Our results generally support our model. Organizational commitment to the environment was associated with increases in employees’ autonomous and extrinsic motivation to perform PEBs. Autonomous motivation, but not extrinsic motivation, was positively related to PEBs. In addition, organizational environmental commitment was positively related to environmental transformational leadership, which, in turn, was positively related to PEBs. Surprisingly, transformational leadership was not related to autonomous motivation. Overall, these findings suggest that organizational commitment to the environment, transformational leadership, and autonomous motivation are critical in fostering employees’ PEBs.
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