Abstract
The world is looking toward organizations for social responsibility to contribute to a sustainable environment. Employees’ organizational citizenship behavior for the environment (OCBE) is a voluntary environmental-oriented behavior that is important for organizations’ environmental performance. Based on social learning theory, this study examined the effects of responsible leadership in connection with OCBE by using a sample of 520 employees in the manufacturing and service sectors in China including engine manufacturing, petroleum plants, banking, and insurance sector organizations. Further, the roles of psychological ownership and employee environmental commitment were used as mediators and moderators simultaneously. The direct, mediation, and moderation model results exposed a positive relationship between responsible leadership and OCBE via employee psychological ownership and employee environmental commitment. The study also revealed that the indirect effect is stronger when employees hold a higher employee environmental commitment. The theoretical and practical implications for environmental sustainability in respect of organizations as well as future research directions are discussed.
Highlights
Global climate change and biodiversity reduction have increased in recent years, which has raised positive ecological expectations of the corporate sector (Han et al, 2019a)
It has been indicated that psychological ownership has a significant positive influence on organizational citizenship behavior for the environment (OCBE) and the results show that (β = 0.156; p < 0.001) psychological ownership changes organizational citizenship behavior to this extent
By performing path analysis we attempted to answer the relationship of responsible leadership with OCBE
Summary
Global climate change and biodiversity reduction have increased in recent years, which has raised positive ecological expectations of the corporate sector (Han et al, 2019a). Responsible Leadership and OCBE producer of carbon emissions, as most of its energy needs are fulfilled by the consumption of fossils fuels, including coal, oil, and gas. According to Wang B. et al (2019) the 60–70% energy needs of manufacturing and services sector organizations, including the electricity generation sector, are met by coal consumption, the highest source of carbon emission. While management scholars have paid attention to strategic and operational corporate environmental protection behavior, they have overlooked the vital role of employees’ behavior toward sustainability and environmental protection (Galpin and Whittington, 2012)
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