Organization Sustainability through Employee Green Behaviour and Ethical Leadership: The Influencing Role of Employee Machiavellianism

Abstract

Objectives. The objective of the present research is to investigate the impact of ethical leadershipon employee green behaviour and sustainability, along with the moderating role ofMachiavellianism. In today’s global era, it is challengeable for the employees to practice greenbehaviour in the workplace. The current study analytically analyses the relationships amongethical leadership, employee green behaviour, Machiavellianism and sustainability.Method. Self-administered questionnaires were administered to gather data from 390 manageriallevel employees of Pakistan Telecommunication Company. Five-point Likert scale has been usedas a measurement scale.Results. Partial least square (PLS) SEM is used to test the survey results of the proposed model.The study findings support the argument that ethical leadership has a significant positive effect onemployee green behaviour. Also, Employee green behaviour positively mediates the relationshipbetween ethical leadership and sustainability. Besides, Machiavellianism and green practicenegatively moderates the relationship on sustainability. The present study is one of its kind toexpand the scope of employee Machiavellianism by revealing that Machiavellianism negativelyinfluences green behaviour and sustainability.Conclusion. Our findings show various ways which will help the organisations to focus onemployee green behaviour and reduce the effect of employee Machiavellianism to get sustainableenvironment. Also, the present study suggests human resource managers to understand employeegreen behaviour in the workplace more better.