The Role of CSR and Ethical Leadership to Shape Employees’ Pro-Environmental Behavior in the Era of Industry 4.0. A Case of the Banking Sector

Wu, Qiang; Cherian, Jacob; Samad, Sarminah; Comite, Ubaldo; Hu, Huajie; Gunnlaugsson, Stefán B.; Oláh, Judit; Sial, Muhammad Safdar

doi:10.3390/su13179773

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“…To this end, the study confirms the mediation role of an ethical leader to explain a positive association between CSR and employees’ pro-environmental behavior. Recently, some other scholars have also mentioned the mediating effect of leadership to explain the discretionary behavior of employees [ 142 , 143 ].…”

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Improving the Environmental Footprint through Employees: A Case of Female Leaders from the Perspective of CSR

Wei

Sial

Zhou

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Environmental quality strongly depends on human behavior patterns. Many environmental challenges are rooted in human actions, and thus, it is believed that these problems can be reduced through the promotion of pro-environmental behaviors (PB). Owing to this reality, the current study aims to reduce the environmental footprint of a hospital by promoting its employees’ environment-specific behavior via corporate social responsibility (CSR) and ethical leadership (EL). More importantly, the study also considered the role of female leaders in the proposed relationship. The current study collected the data from the respondents employed in different hospitals of a developing economy through a questionnaire (paper-pencil method). A total of 489 valid responses were collected, which were analyzed by employing the structural equation modeling (SEM) technique. As per the current study’s findings, there is a positive relationship between CSR, while EL mediates between CSR and PB. Likewise, the moderating role of female leaders in the proposed relationship was more significant than that of male leaders. More specifically, the study’s findings have considerable theoretical and practical implications, as it opens paths for researchers to further investigate the applicability of different dimensions of CSR and the role of gender in environmental sustainability. It provides insight to policymakers on how to restructure their CSR preferences, priorities on the environment, and gender differences.

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Improving the Environmental Footprint through Employees: A Case of Female Leaders from the Perspective of CSR

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Zhou

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“…Ethical leadership refers to a leadership style that is characterized by respect for ethical norms, values, and dignity for the work through interactive communication and involving them in organizational decision-making (Wu et al, 2021). Ethical leadership plays a role model in developing followers' commitment (Abuzaid, 2018;Sharma, et al, 2019) Ethical leadership is reported to influence normative commitment (Abuzaid, 2018;Danish et al, 2020;Lotfi et al,2017;and Sheraz, 2020)…”

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The Effect of Ethical Leadership On Job Performance: The Mediating Role of Public Service Motivation and Normative Commitment

Syahrani

Hernawaty

Winarno

2022

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Introduction/Main Objectives: To analyze how ethical leadership influences job performance mediated public service motivation and normative commitment in public institutions. Background Problems: Ethical issues in public institutions are rarely discussed openly by involving practitioners, although ethical issues are the root of the emergence of various problems in public organizations. Leaders play an important role in ethics. Novelty: Show ethical leadership as a resource for social learning and provide an understanding that ethical leadership is an important leadership style in the job performance system of public services in leader-member exchange theory. Research Methods: The explanation method uses a survey of 327 civil servants in East Kalimantan. The data analysis technique uses SEM covariance. Finding/Results: Ethical leadership as a model for subordinates in providing public services. The interaction between leaders and subordinates encourages public service motivation for the public and fosters normative commitment based on consideration of ethical values. Ethical leaders influence the job performance of civil servants through service and normative commitment. Conclusion: Increased public service motivation and normative awareness, as well as job performance as a public servant, is influenced by ethical leadership. The practical implication is the need to develop and strengthen interactions between leaders and subordinates as a social learning process that can activate ethical awareness as public servants.

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“…Transformational leadership theory has been regarded as an important driver of employee behavior and company strategy [20][21][22][23][24][25]. Indeed, transformational leadership has been studied across different disciplines [26][27][28][29][30].…”

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How to Promote Medium-Sized Farms to Adopt Environmental Strategy to Achieve Sustainable Production during the COVID-19 Pandemic?

Huang¹,

Chen

Lee

2021

Agriculture

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To achieve sustainable production in medium-sized farms, this research proposes a hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) to predict environmental strategy (ES), which is a crucial source of sustainable production. Based on the theory of upper echelons, the present research puts forward that the environmental leadership (EL) of the chief executive officer (CEO) at phase one affects the development of environmental corporate social responsibility (ECSR) adoption, which in turn affects the development of ES adoption over time. The empirical data were obtained through a three-stage sampling method of 90 CEOs and 270 members of senior management teams (SETs) of Taiwanese medium-sized farms, over a period of six months. The research results support that the higher level of CEO EL at phase one results in the development of ECSR adoption, which in turn results in the development of ES adoption. This research opens a new direction for sustainable production by showing how to implement ES through organizational management mechanisms (EL). These findings can fill the gaps in the literature on the sustainable production of farms and can also help these farms to achieve sustainable production by adopting ES.

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The Role of CSR and Ethical Leadership to Shape Employees’ Pro-Environmental Behavior in the Era of Industry 4.0. A Case of the Banking Sector

Cited by 23 publications

References 131 publications

Improving the Environmental Footprint through Employees: A Case of Female Leaders from the Perspective of CSR

Improving the Environmental Footprint through Employees: A Case of Female Leaders from the Perspective of CSR

The Effect of Ethical Leadership On Job Performance: The Mediating Role of Public Service Motivation and Normative Commitment

How to Promote Medium-Sized Farms to Adopt Environmental Strategy to Achieve Sustainable Production during the COVID-19 Pandemic?

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