How Does Green Training Boost Employee Green Creativity? A Sequential Mediation Process Model.

Jianfei Wu,Zejuan Bian,Weinan Zhang,Wenjing Cai,Dan Chen,Tiantian Shen

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.759548

Abstract

Despite accumulated evidence from previous studies that green creativity is highly emphasized in various industries, limited research has been conducted in the context of public sectors. Drawing on the dynamic componential model of creativity and innovation in organizations, this paper aims to propose and sequentially test the relationship between green training and employees’ green creativity through green values and green intrinsic motivation. Based on the data collected in Chinese public sectors (N = 464) at two different time points, the results indicate that green training is positively related to green creativity. Moreover, this relationship is sequentially mediated by green values and green intrinsic motivation. The results in our study advance the emergent literature on green human resource management in the public sector for the practical applications of training and creativity in terms of green management.

Highlights

With the increasing acknowledgments of boosting individuals’ creativity in the workplace, practitioners and scholars have recently devoted attention to green creativity issues (Chen and Chang, 2013; Song and Yu, 2018) because global activities concerned with environmental issues and organizations benefit from a wide range of creative options in a green manner (Mittal and Dhar, 2016)
Drawing on the dynamic componential model of creativity and innovation in organizations, the current study aims to extend the understanding of green training and employees’ green creativity
We unfold the black box of why and how green training provided by organizations can contribute to increasing employees’ green output in a creative way

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With the increasing acknowledgments of boosting individuals’ creativity in the workplace, practitioners and scholars have recently devoted attention to green creativity issues (Chen and Chang, 2013; Song and Yu, 2018) because global activities concerned with environmental issues and organizations benefit from a wide range of creative options in a green manner (Mittal and Dhar, 2016). The topic of green creativity in the public sector has been largely overlooked, perhaps due to the overwhelming focus on profit organizations (e.g., services and manufacturing sectors) in previous research. Given global challenges (e.g., the current scarcity of natural resources), some scholars have called for green outputs in public sectors to be investigated because green public sector strategies have been adopted internationally by offering green services (Boenigk and Möhlmann, 2016). Existing studies have indicated the extent of green training by empirically showing that employees who receive training on green issues develop their environmental knowledge and awareness of

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