Linking Leaders’ Voluntary Workplace Green Behavior and Team Green Innovation: The Mediation Role of Team Green Efficacy

Cai, Wenjing; Yang, Chun; Bossink, Bart; Fu, Jingtao

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“…Hence, this emotional contagion ignites employees’ harmonious environmental passion [ 22 ]. Although limited research has been conducted on employees’ harmonious environmental passion, our results are according with the existing literature that documented positive workplace outcomes as a result of ethical leadership [ 90 ], as well as a positive association between green psychological climate and employees’ harmonious environmental passion [ 91 , 92 ]. Third, we tested and noted a positive and statistically significant indirect effect of green psychological climate mediation of group-level ethical leadership on employees’ environmental commitment.…”

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Inculcation of Green Behavior in Employees: A Multilevel Moderated Mediation Approach

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Qadeer

Mahmood

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In this era of globalization, preventing organizations from undermining and degrading the environment has become a great challenge, especially when considering that organizations are among the major contributors to environmental deterioration. As a result, scholars have recently begun to focus on understanding the key determinants of employee green behavior (EGB), a nascent field within the area of sustainable development and organizational behavior. This study extends the emerging discussion over EGB by investigating how green behavior can be inculcated into employees’ mindsets and under what conditions this can best be accomplished. The present research examines the relationship between ethical leadership and EGB by the mediating mechanisms of green psychological climate, employees’ harmonious environmental passion, and employees’ environmental commitment, through the underpinnings of social learning theory. Further, the study examines the contingency effects of leaders’ pro-environmental attitudes to determine how leaders with ethical attributes and pro-environmental attitudes can create a green psychological climate that ultimately leads to EGB through employees’ harmonious environmental passion and employees’ environmental commitment. The approach to implementing theory development is deductive as the research employed a quantitative research design and survey administration with a time-lagged approach. Multi-level data were collected from 400 respondents working in public and private sector hospitals and universities in Pakistan. The analysis was conducted in MPlus. The results show positive and statistically significant effects of ethical leadership on EGB through the serial mediations of a green psychological climate and employees’ harmonious environmental passion, and a green psychological climate and employees’ environmental commitment. Moreover, the leaders’ pro-environmental attitude contingency strengthens the indirect impact of ethical leadership on EGB. This research provides several managerial implications through which organizations can strategically concentrate on EGB, including saving energy by turning off unused lights, reducing waste, and recycling.

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Inculcation of Green Behavior in Employees: A Multilevel Moderated Mediation Approach

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“…The third limitation concerns the potential influences of group members on employees’ behavioral outcomes. Since previous studies have indicated that the interactions among team members within a group can exert an impact on a group’ working environment (e.g., Cai et al, 2020 ), we encourage future studies to take group members’ green-related attitudes and behaviors into consideration to further establish our research findings.…”

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“…Since employees generally work on teams, we suggest that future studies explore the implications of the trickle-down effect on team-level pro-environmental outcomes. For example, when a leader displays a VWGB, he/she tends to highlight collective interests that would encourage team members to work together on environmental issues for the green benefits of the whole team ( Cai et al, 2020 ). Thus, the team’s pro-environmental work behaviors may increase.…”

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“…Specifically, leaders’ VWGB has been widely acknowledged to be a beneficial predictor. When a leader voluntarily displays green-oriented behaviors in the workplace, his/her followers receive information that environment-related endeavors are considered to be valuable and encouraged; thus, followers are more likely to engage in green-oriented behaviors during their work (e.g., green innovation, sustainable activities; Kim et al, 2017 , 2019 ; Cai et al, 2020 ). The theoretical basis for the benefits of leaders’ VWGB in facilitating desirable outputs among followers lies in the tendency of subordinates to form and develop their own behavioral styles by observing, identifying, and imitating the behaviors of leaders ( Bandura and Walters, 1977 ; Babutsidze and Chai, 2018 ).…”

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“…Recently, scholars have pointed out that leaders’ voluntary workplace green behavior (VWGB) —referring to leaders’ discretionary activities and behaviors that aim to enhance organizational sustainability in a green and environmental way but that are not regulated or controlled by formal institutions relating to green managerial philosophy ( Boiral, 2009 )—can influence followers’ desirable outputs ( Kim et al, 2017 ; Cai et al, 2020 ). However, the empirical attention given to the trickle-down effect of leaders’ VWGB is still very limited.…”

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The Trickle-Down Effect of Leaders’ VWGB on Employees’ Pro-Environmental Behaviors: A Moderated Mediation Model

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Although previous research has highlighted the positive effect of leaders’ voluntary workplace green behavior (VWGB), limited research attention has been given to empirically testing how and when such behavior produces trickle-down effects. Taking a role model perspective and drawing on social identity theory, this research aims to fill this gap by proposing and testing the mechanism and boundary conditions of the influencing processes whereby leaders’ VWGB can trickle down to employees’ pro-environmental behaviors. By theorizing a moderated mediation model, the current research empirically examines the hypotheses by conducting a hierarchical regression analysis. We employed a survey questionnaire research design to collect two waves of multisource data. The data used in the analysis are from survey responses of 313 subordinate-supervisor dyads at two different time points. The results show that leaders’ VWGB can have a trickle-down influence on employees’ task-related pro-environmental behavior and proactive pro-environmental behaviors through their green self-identity and that this trickle-down effect is greater among employees with higher green climate perceptions. Our results reveal the intervening mechanism and boundary condition of leaders’ VWGB by conducting a systematic examination of how this effect trickles down.

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Green process innovation: Where we are and where we are going

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Environmental pollution has worsened in the past few decades, and increasing pressure is being put on firms by different regulatory bodies, customer groups, NGOs and other media outlets to adopt green process innovations (GPcIs), which include clean technologies and end-of-pipe solutions. Although considerable studies have been published on GPcI, the literature is disjointed, and as such, a comprehensive understanding of the issues, challenges and gaps is lacking. A systematic literature review (SLR) involving 80 relevant studies was conducted to extract seven themes: strategic response, organisational learning, institutional pressures, structural issues, outcomes, barriers and methodological choices. The review thus highlights the various gaps in the GPcI literature and illuminates the pathways for future research by proposing a series of potential research questions. This study is of vital importance to business strategy as it provides a comprehensive framework to help firms understand the various contours of GPcI. Likewise, policymakers can use the findings of this study to fill in the loopholes in the existing regulations that firms are exploiting to circumvent taxes and other penalties by locating their operations to emerging economies with less stringent environmental regulations.clean technology, end-of-pipe solutions, green innovations, green process innovation, systematic literature review | INTRODUCTIONNations around the globe have prioritised economic and industrial growth over the past few decades, often at the expense of the environment. This growth has mainly relied on conventional technologies, which suffer from inefficient energy consumption and severe greenhouse emissions and thus lead to global warming (J. Dai et al., 2015).Per the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), global warming increases the intensity of extreme weather changes, which causes a rise in the sea level and the melting of glaciers, thereby threatening the existence of life on earth (IPCC, 2013). There is thus a dire need to switch from fossil fuel-led energy-inefficient technologies to focus more on clean and green technologies that are not only energy efficient but also help in pollution and emission reduction in the production processes (Erzurumlu & Erzurumlu, 2013). Furthermore, while green technologies have the ability to control the emission of greenhouse gases into the environment, they also have the potential to address the dilemma of economic growth. Given that governments are less willing to adopt alternative technologies if they compromise their economic and industrial growth, green technologies are particularly promising as they help in energy efficiency and emission reduction at the same time (N. Zhang, Liu, et al., 2017).

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Linking Leaders’ Voluntary Workplace Green Behavior and Team Green Innovation: The Mediation Role of Team Green Efficacy

Cited by 37 publications

References 72 publications

Inculcation of Green Behavior in Employees: A Multilevel Moderated Mediation Approach

Inculcation of Green Behavior in Employees: A Multilevel Moderated Mediation Approach

The Trickle-Down Effect of Leaders’ VWGB on Employees’ Pro-Environmental Behaviors: A Moderated Mediation Model

Green process innovation: Where we are and where we are going

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