Employee Pro-Environmental Behavior: The Impact of Environmental Transformational Leadership and GHRM

We investigated the impact of environmental transformational leadership (ETL) on pro-environmental behavior (PEB) of employees in Kazakhstan. The study also examined the potential mediating effect of environmental awareness and green human resource management (GHRM) as a moderating effect, using the...

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Published in:Sustainability 2022-02, Vol.14 (4), p.2046
Main Authors: Omarova, Laura, Jo, Sung-Jun
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Behavior
Climate change
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Developing countries
Employees
Environmental awareness
Environmental behavior
Environmental economics
Environmental impact
Environmental protection
Environmental testing
LDCs
Leadership
Managers
Medical research
Model testing
Multivariate statistical analysis
Sustainability
Sustainable development
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Summary:We investigated the impact of environmental transformational leadership (ETL) on pro-environmental behavior (PEB) of employees in Kazakhstan. The study also examined the potential mediating effect of environmental awareness and green human resource management (GHRM) as a moderating effect, using the theory of planned behavior. An online cross-sectional survey was conducted with 268 Kazakh employees from private and public organizations. Structural equation modeling was used to test the theory-driven model. The results show that environmental leadership predicted employees’ PEB, environmental awareness mediated the relationship, and GHRM partially moderated the relationship. The results of bootstrapping tests reveal that environmental awareness played successive mediating roles in the link between ETL and PEBs, but the simple slope test did not support the moderating effect of GHRM. Environmental awareness and GHRM were identified as fundamental mechanisms that accounted for the connection between ETL and PEBs.
ISSN:2071-1050
2071-1050
DOI:10.3390/su14042046