ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a detailed description of how each component in the conceptual framework was developed and defined. It outlines the organizational and supervisory support components of the framework and how this fits into the overall natural environment. The chapter describes how the literature is used on environmental management systems and international environmental charters to select the list of thirteen environmental policies from which organizational encouragement is measured in the survey. It defines the six behavioral categories that form the hypotheses used in the empirical study to measure the employee perceptions of the signals of supervisory support for eco-initiatives. The chapter also describes the last hypothesis which is a comparison of the data from the supervisory behavior variables. It depicts the conceptual model underlying the survey instrument. Environmental policy development in firms is one component of standardized environmental management systems, like EMAS and ISO 14001.
