The interplay of green servant leadership, self-efficacy, and intrinsic motivation in predicting employees’ pro-environmental behavior

Naveed Ahmad Faraz, Fawad Ahmed*, Ma Ying, Sultan Adal Mehmood

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Abstract

Employees' pro-environmental behavior serves as a cornerstone in realizing organizations' sustainability initiatives. Leadership plays a vital role in shaping and nurturing the desired employee behaviors. Building upon social learning and self-determination theories, we developed and tested a research model that investigated the mediating role of employees' green intrinsic motivation and the moderating influence of their green self-efficacy on the relationship between green servant leadership and pro-environmental behavior. Data were collected in two waves from 323 pairs of employee-manager working in Pakistan's energy sector and analyzed with partial least squares path modeling (PLS-PM). The findings endorsed that green servant leadership influences pro-environmental behavior through the mediating mechanism of green intrinsic motivation. Further, green self-efficacy played an interactive role with green servant leadership in shaping pro-environmental behavior. This research responds to multiple calls for research and advances the knowledge on servant leadership and pro-environmental behavior.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1171-1184
Number of pages14
JournalCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management
Volume28
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jul 2021
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • employees' pro-environmental behavior
  • energy sector
  • green intrinsic motivation
  • green self-efficacy
  • green servant leadership
  • self-determination theory

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