Abstract
The primary purpose of this research is to test a research model that examines the perceptions of Cihan Group managers regarding the impact of effective leadership in improving organizational performance: Green supply chain management practices as a mediating mechanism. As a data collection method, a survey instrument was considered that included three dimensions of effective leadership, Green supply chain management (GSCM), and organizational performance. The data were analyzed by using partial least squares–structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). The research found positive and significant causal relationships among the leading organization, leading people, and leading self with GSCM practices. In addition, GSCM practices positively correlated with organizational performance. The findings confirmed that GSCM practices fully mediate the relationship among the leading organization, leading people, and organizational performance, as the leading organization and leading people constructs indirectly correlated with organizational performance. The findings also showed that GSCM practices partially mediated the relationship between the leading self and organizational performance, as leading self, directly and indirectly, correlated to organizational performance. The research contributes to the literature by indicating that effective leadership via its dimensions—leading organization, people, and self— indirectly improves organizational performance by the mediating role of GSCM practices. Meanwhile, GSCM practices improve social and environmental performance.
Highlights
Business organizations, including manufacturing companies, are moving toward the concepts of green, sustainability, and environmental concerns
A similar model was first developed by Paliszkiewicz et al (2015), which included effective leadership and organizational performance; the results found that effective leadership significantly impacts organizational performance
This research model was tested to establish convergence validity and confirm the significance of all indicators belonging to all research variables and their constructs
Summary
Business organizations, including manufacturing companies, are moving toward the concepts of green, sustainability, and environmental concerns. Waste from resources, and environmental imbalance increasingly become globally focused, Green supply chain management has arisen as an essential strategic selection to decrease the environmental effect and improve organizational performance on the way to achieving sustainable development This requires leaders who can appropriately and effectively develop plans and strategies to meet these challenges and achieve survival and growth (Ibrahim & Daniel, 2019; Zhu & Sarkis, 2004). As the ability or skill to lead a group of employees in an organization, effective leadership expresses present-day reality and future aspirations that aim to shed light on growth and development areas Leaders can achieve their organizational goals with less time, effort, and cost in an open system that supports constructive participation, which in turn yields elements of efficiency, effectiveness through good rationalization, and use of organizational resources (Koohang et al, 2017), not to mention promoting continuous development and organizational support learning for individuals and groups. Organizations’ goals to achieve by using appropriate methods and means must differ according to economic and social values; this requires implementing methods to influence leadership (Bryman, 2007; Hofmeyer et al, 2015)
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