Abstract
Focusing on China’s steel industry, the effect of green transformational leadership on employee green creativity, its underlying mechanisms, and the conditions that govern the situation are examined. The sample analysis of 298 employees working with 46 supervisors from 23 companies indicates that green transformational leadership positively affects employee green creativity, and creative process engagement plays a mediating role in the relationship of green transformational leadership to employee green creativity. Moreover, the mediated role is moderated by green innovation strategy, which is used as a boundary spanner to affect the whole path linked by creative process engagement, so that this effect is strengthened when the level of green innovation strategy is high, rather than low. The results verify the hierarchical linear hypothesized model, which is helpful to sketch a more complete view of the relationship between green transformational leadership, creative process engagement, green innovation strategy, and green creativity, and to provide beneficial insights for innovative practice and the green management of steel enterprises.
Highlights
With the prosperity and development of China’s manufacturing industry, the Chinese government are increasingly concerned by environmental issues [1]
This research contributes three considerations: firstly, we clarified the direct influence of green transformational leadership on green creativity; and secondly, we indicated the mediation of creative process engagement as the mediate path to link green transformational leadership and green creativity; lastly, we introduced a green innovation strategy as a hierarchical moderating mechanism to promote green individual creativity
Taking steel enterprises as an example to examine the correlation among green transformational leadership, green innovation strategy, creative process engagement and green creativity is representative, and able to respond to the urgent needs of reality
Summary
With the prosperity and development of China’s manufacturing industry, the Chinese government are increasingly concerned by environmental issues [1]. The steel production process brings direct energy consumption and pollutant emissions, and destroys the ecological environment, through the impact on the upstream and downstream industrial chain [2]. Based on these environmental problems, government and enterprises are exploring the path of green development [3]. Previous studies have shown that enterprises can create a win-win situation for themselves and society if they can integrate green creativity into their development process, while pursuing other benefits [5]. Green creativity plays an important role in coping with global ecological sustainable changes to gain competitive edges [8,9]
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