Environmental-specific servant leadership as a strategic tool to accomplish environmental performance: a case of China
| Autor: | Fahad Asmi, Farhan Mir, Muhammad Ali Asadullah, Ahmad Nabeel Siddiquei |
|---|---|
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
Mainland China
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Knowledge management business.industry Strategy and Management media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Servant leadership Context (language use) 010501 environmental sciences 01 natural sciences Competitive advantage Management of Technology and Innovation Service (economics) 0502 economics and business Ordinary least squares Sustainability organizations Sociology Social identity theory business 050203 business & management 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Manpower. 42:1161-1182 |
| ISSN: | 0143-7720 |
| Popis: | PurposeThe Chinese firms are keenly focused on reducing their environmental footprints as part of the competitive strategy. Within the context of sustainable organizations in China, we test a multilevel framework that examined the impact of environmental-specific servant leadership on the green individual (pro-environmental behavior) and team (project green performance) outcomes within projects. Using social identity theory, we theorize and test the mediating role of green self-identity (individual level) and team green identification (team level) in the relationships between environmental-specific servant leadership, pro-environmental behavior and project green performance.Design/methodology/approachWe used survey questionnaires to collect multi-level and multi-wave data from 42 ongoing project-based sustainable organisations in China. The multilevel team to individual-level hypothesis were analyzed using multilevel-modeling via Mplus, while team level hypotheses were tested using ordinary least squares regression.FindingsThe multilevel regression analysis showed that environmental-specific servant leadership has a trickle-down effect of green self-identity, which subsequently predicts pro-environmental behavior. The ordinary least squares regression results demonstrated that environmental-specific servant leadership predicts project green performance via team green identification. Also, environmental-specific servant leadership has a positive and direct impact on pro-environmental behavior and project green performance.Research limitations/implicationsWe offer community and service dimension of leadership as a determinant of environmental performance at multiple levels. We provide managerial and policy implications to Chinese organizations striving to reposition themselves as eco-friendly organizations both nationally and globally.Originality/valueThe study is among the first to understand the role of environmental-specific servant leadership in predicting individual-level and team-level environment-related mediator and outcomes simultaneously. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
| Externí odkaz: |
|