Researchers highlighted the need to increase our understanding about the effect of sustainability practices on employees. In this work, we argue that organizational legitimacy has a mediating effect between sustainability practices and employee loyalty. This structural relationship is analyzed on employees of Spanish public universities. Our results confirm the existence of the mediating effect proposed. The lack of organizational legitimacy makes sustainability actions irrelevant for employees. Results expand our understanding about the effect of sustainability among employees. In addition, they provide new evidence for practitioners in order to focus on organizational legitimacy for a better sustainability implementation.

中文翻译：

---

可持续发展行动、员工忠诚度与意识：组织合法性的中介作用

研究人员强调有必要加深我们对可持续发展实践对员工影响的理解。在这项工作中，我们认为组织合法性在可持续性实践和员工忠诚度之间具有中介作用。这种结构关系在西班牙公立大学的雇员身上进行了分析。我们的结果证实了所提出的中介效应的存在。缺乏组织合法性使得可持续发展行动与员工无关。结果扩大了我们对可持续发展对员工影响的理解。此外，它们为从业者提供了新的证据，以便将重点放在组织合法性上，以更好地实施可持续发展。