Exploring the Impact of Responsible Leadership on Organizational Citizenship Behavior for the Environment: A Leadership Identity Perspective

By Hongdan Zhao, Qiongyao Zhou. Sustainability, 2019

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Drawing on social identity theory, the authors demonstrated how and when responsible leadership might relate to employee’s organizational citizenship behavior for the environment (OCBE). Using data collected from 302 subordinates from one service chain hotel in China across 2 phases, this study discussed the influence mechanism of responsible leadership on OCBE, as well as the roles of leader identification and the perceived role of ethics and social responsibility (PRESOR). Empirical results revealed that responsible leadership was positively related to OCBE, and that leader identification played a mediating role between responsible leadership and OCBE. The relationship between leader identification and OCBE was positively moderated by PRESOR, which also moderated the indirect effect of responsible leadership on OCBE through leader identification, such that this relationship was stronger when PRESOR was high. Finally, we outlined the theoretical and practical implications and proposed some promising aspects and value variables for future research.

Subfields: Marketing, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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Citations in the corpus

• Examining the effects of environmentally-specific servant leadership on green work outcomes among hotel employees: the mediating role of climate for green creativity (2021, background): “…L. Robertson & Barling, 2017; Mi et al., 2019; Mittal & Dhar, 2016; Peng et al., 2020; Robertson, 2018; Y. S. Chen & Chang, 2013), ethical leadership (Khan et al., 2019; Saleem et al., 2020; Zhang et al., 2016), empowering leadership (Jiang & Li, 2019) or responsible leadership (Zhao & Zhou, 2019).”
• Ethical Leadership and Employee Green Behavior: A Multilevel Moderated Mediation Analysis (2020, background): “For instance, spiritual leadership positively impacts EGB by inspiring moral values and by establishing a spiritual workplace atmosphere [19], and responsible leadership encourages employees’ eco-friendly behaviors [55].”