The study assessed environmental policy and supervisory support behaviors as creating an impetus for environmental actions in companies, leading to environmentally proactive firms sending encourgamental signals to employees. | JED July 2014| 105 The Roles of Supervisory Support Behaviors and Environmental Policy in Employee “Eco-initiatives” at Manufacturing Companies in Vietnam NHÂM PHONG TUÂN University of Economics and Business, Vietnam National University - tuannp@ TAKAHASHI YOSHI Hiroshima University (Japan) NGUYỄN THỊ TUYẾT MAI Hiroshima University (Japan) - maichoe@ ARTICLE INFO Article history: Received: Dec. 29 2013 Received in revised form May 28 2014 Accepted: June 30 2014 Keywords: supervisory support behaviors; employee ecoinitiatives; manufacturing companies; Vietnam ABSTRACT Environmental issues are taking more attentions from many countries in the world and have forced proactive companies to adopt environmental policy and encourage supervisory support behaviors in an aim to increase employee willingness to promote ecoinitiatives. The study assessed environmental policy and supervisory support behaviors as creating an impetus for environmental actions in companies, leading to environmentally proactive firms sending encourgamental signals to employees. Data of 212 mid- and lowlevel employees was collected from questionnaire survey at three companies located in Hà Nội and Đà Nẵng City in Vietnam during January 2013. By using likelihood ratio tests and logistic regression analyses, the results supported both two hypotheses: Environmental policies will influence on employee willingness to promote ecoinitiatives; Supervisory support behaviors will influence on employee willingness to promote eco-initiatives. From then on, some implications were suggested. 106 | Nhâm Phong Tuân, Takahashi Yoshi & Nguyễn Thị Tuyết Mai | 105 - 126 1. INTRODUCTION Actual existence and development of the countries in the world in the nineteenth century, twentieth and early twenty-first century show us that the economic development mainly focuses on the benefits. However, it does not include preventing problems, reducing .
