Achieving environmental sustainability through green transformational leadership policy: Can green team resilience help?

Abstract

The race to gain competitive advantage through the formulation of a sustainable business strategy is key for the survival in the global business sphere. Even more importantly is the quest to deploy an effective green strategy to combat the numerous negative impact industrialization has on the environment. Researches pointed out the role of leaders and stakeholder's engagement in bringing about reform. This research focuses on how to build a robust psychological capital within an organization through the leader's transformative ability in combating environmental issues. This is necessary because research related to green transformational leadership and the effect on green team resilience has not been considered in literature. Drawing from the combination of three theories; broaden‐and‐build theory, job demand–resource theory, and conservation of resource theory, this study contributes to the extant literature by testing the effect of green transformational leadership via the mediating role of green work engagement to green team resilience. Using Amos 20 version to analyze 351 questionnaires that were collected from employees in four and five star hotels in Turkey, the result reviews that green transformational leadership has a positive effect on green work engagement and green team resilience, and green work engagement fully mediates the relationship between the variables. The theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

Relationship between Team Conflict and Performance in Green Enterprises: A Cross‐Level Model Moderated by Leaders’ Political Skills

“…Team performance describes the ability of a team's production output to meet or satisfy established performance standards [25] including the needs of environment development [7]. To meet team performance standards, team members must evaluate the status quo, understand their tasks, and propose solutions based on their own and their teammates' knowledge, views, and abilities, with the ultimate goal of solving problems [26].…”

“…erefore, it is a common phenomenon that teams in green enterprises suffer from the ideological conflicts about economic efficiency and green decision-making. On the one hand, teams in green enterprises are burdened with the responsibility and obligation of formulating environmental business strategies and improving the environmental processes in organizations [7]. Consequently, there may be much conflict of attitudes and green decisions in teams.…”

“…erefore, teams in green enterprise not only undertake the important task of enterprise development, but also accumulate the risk of fierce team conflict. For example, some recent studies have suggested that team resilience helps a lot for a green enterprises' green sustainable development [7].…”

“…A large number of scholars have discussed the important role of leadership in organization and team management from the theoretical perspectives of leadership traits, leadership behaviors, and leadership contingency [13]. With the increasing uncertainty in organizations especially in green enterprises, political behavior plays an increasingly important role, and leaders' political skills become important skills to effectively manage organizations and teams [7]. e political skills of leaders are indispensable for coordinating inconsistent goals, tasks, needs, and interests of teams in green enterprises.…”

“…e political skills of leaders are indispensable for coordinating inconsistent goals, tasks, needs, and interests of teams in green enterprises. Team leaders have an important influence on all aspects of team activities, and their political skills can help resolve team conflicts, especially in team conflict management for green enterprises to formulate a sustainable business strategy [7]. However, discussion of the role of leaders' political skills is still lacking.…”