Purpose

Transformational leadership has caught the significant attention of many academic scholars in the leadership domain. In recent studies, emphasis has been given on green transformational leaders who empower their subordinates, which, in turn, leads to employees’ discretionary behavior toward environmental management of the organization, which has been denoted as organizational environmental citizenship behavior. Organizational citizenship behavior has been strongly advocated as a means to improve the environmental performance of organizations. A green transformational leader encourages his subordinates to undertake activities that are beneficial to the organization’s environmental management, such as thinking about the sustainable development of the organization, solving environmental problems and contributing to the firm’s environmental performance. This study aims to investigate the domain of environmental leadership by examining the mechanism and conditions under which green transformational leaders induce organizational environmental citizenship behavior.

Design/methodology/approach

Information technology (IT) firms across four major cities in India were considered for the survey to examine the proposed hypotheses. Online questionnaires were shared with 1,286 employees working across seven branches of IT companies. A total of 378 respondents completed the survey, but only 293 questionnaires were suitable for further analysis using structural equation modeling.

Findings

The findings of the study show that green transformational leadership promotes green empowerment and organizational citizenship behaviors toward the environment (OCBE) among the employees. It also reveals that environmental passion plays a key role in promoting eco-initiative and eco-helping behavior among the employees when they are empowered for green practices. Also, the influence of resource commitment fosters eco-civic engagement among the employees.

Practical implications

Results hold strong implications for human resource managers on how green transformational leadership approaches can help trigger organizational citizenship behavior among employees. Also, understanding the impact of green empowerment on employees’ involvement in extra-role behavior will help organizations to develop strategies to strengthen their sense of empowerment toward green practices.

Originality/value

This study attempts to investigate the impact of green transformational leadership on employees’ OCBE and the mechanisms through and conditions under which green transformational leadership may impact the indicators of OCBE. The study proposes a mechanism and social and psychological conditions that can potentially explain the linkages between green transformational leadership and OCBE: green empowerment, resource commitment and environmental passion.

中文翻译：

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通过绿色变革型领导实现组织环境公民行为：一项有调节的中介研究

目的

变革型领导引起了领导领域许多学术学者的高度关注。在最近的研究中，重点关注绿色变革型领导者，他们向下属授权，进而导致员工对组织环境管理的自由裁量行为，这被称为组织环境公民行为。组织公民行为已被大力提倡作为提高组织环境绩效的一种手段。绿色变革型领导者鼓励下属从事有利于组织环境管理的活动，例如思考组织的可持续发展、解决环境问题以及为企业的环境绩效做出贡献。本研究旨在通过研究绿色变革型领导者诱发组织环境公民行为的机制和条件来研究环境领导力领域。

设计/方法论/途径

印度四个主要城市的信息技术 (IT) 公司被考虑参加这项调查，以检验所提出的假设。我们向 IT 公司 7 个分支机构的 1,286 名员工分享了在线调查问卷。共有 378 名受访者完成了调查，但只有 293 份问卷适合使用结构方程模型进行进一步分析。

发现

研究结果表明，绿色变革型领导可以促进员工的绿色赋权和组织环境公民行为（OCBE）。它还表明，当员工被授权进行绿色实践时，环保热情在促进员工的生态主动性和生态帮助行为方面发挥着关键作用。此外，资源承诺的影响促进了员工的生态公民参与。

实际影响

研究结果对于人力资源经理关于绿色变革型领导方法如何帮助激发员工的组织公民行为具有重要意义。此外，了解绿色授权对员工参与角色外行为的影响将有助于组织制定战略，以加强他们对绿色实践的授权意识。

原创性/价值

本研究试图探讨绿色变革型领导对员工OCBE的影响以及绿色变革型领导影响OCBE指标的机制和条件。该研究提出了一种机制以及社会和心理条件，可以潜在地解释绿色变革型领导力与 OCBE 之间的联系：绿色赋权、资源承诺和环境热情。