SERVANT LEADERSHIP AND NURSE’S PRO-ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOR: THE ROLE OF AUTONOMOUS AND EXTERNAL MOTIVATIONS

Annam Bibi

doi:10.31933/dijms.v1i6.341

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the relationships between servant leadership, pro-environmental behavior, and external and autonomous motivation among nurses, and whether external and autonomous motivations mediate the relationship between servant leadership and pro-environmental behavior. Based on a survey of 351 nurses, we found that servant leadership was significantly associated with pro-environmental behavior and that external and autonomous motivations indirectly affected the relationship between servant leadership and pro-environmental behavior. Moreover, servant leadership was found to interact with external motivation to predict pro-environmental behavior of nurses. Managers of nursing services should consider servant leadership and its positive influence on nurses’ outcomes in order to improve their performance and, subsequently, the healthcare system.

Highlights

Corresponding to a growing public concern about the long-term consequences of environmental degradation and climate change, companies around the world are proactively striving toward improved environmental responsibility and stewardship (Aguinis & Glavas, 2012)
We tested the linear structural model, and results showed that the immediate supervisor’s servant leadership was positively relate to the employee’s autonomous (B = .35, p < .01) and external motivation (B = .27, p < .001). Nurses who saw their supervisors as displaying servant leadership reported higher levels of both autonomous motivation and external motivation to engage in pro-environmental behavior (PEB)
Our primary contribution to the literature is our focus on the interplay of servant leadership and employee motivation in facilitating nurses’ PEBs in public hospitals of Pakistan

Summary

INTRODUCTION

Corresponding to a growing public concern about the long-term consequences of environmental degradation and climate change, companies around the world are proactively striving toward improved environmental responsibility and stewardship (Aguinis & Glavas, 2012). Theory of planned behavior and value-belief-norm theory are commonly used to study environmental issues (Afsar & Umrani, 2020) The former predicts intentions via attitude, social norms, and perceived control. Potential, goals, objectives, transcended needs, desires, and inspirations of their followers and motivate them to achieve higher purpose through trust, confidence, feedback, empowerment, and resources (McCann & Holt, 2010) Another centering point of the study is the individual employee motivation which plays a vital role when it comes to develop PEBs. due to certain reasons the employee motivation has not been that much attended to, especially when it comes to the corporate sustainability literature, despite its primal nature in inducing the conduct of workers in the systematic establishments as Gagné and Deci (2005) presented in their work. A literary review on servant leadership and the human motivation theory has been provided, followed by an overview of the present study’s framework, leading to an argumentative logical elaboration of the relationships that have been suggested here

LITERATURE REVIEW Servant leadership

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