Does green inclusive leadership promote hospitality employees’ pro-environmental behaviors? The mediating role of climate for green initiative

ABSTRACT

Drawing on social learning and social information processing theories, this study proposes and tests a model of the association of green-inclusive leadership on pro-environmental behaviors (task-related pro-environmental behavior (PEB) and organizational citizenship for the environment) through climate for green initiative. Using data collected in two waves from 254 employees working in the hospitality industry (restaurants) and utilizing structural equation modeling, our results suggest that green-inclusive leadership is a promising leadership style in encouraging task-related PEB and organizational citizenship for the environment (OCBE). The results also suggest that climate for green initiative is an effective underlying mechanism between the green-inclusive leadership-pro-environmental behaviors linkages. Our model is novel in that the associations proposed and tested were not investigated before. Furthermore, the research is the first of its kind to introduce climate for green initiative in the research of pro-environmental management practices. Discussion, implications and limitations are presented.

本研究借鉴社会学习和社会信息处理理论，通过绿色倡议的气候，提出并检验了绿色包容性领导与亲环境行为（与任务相关的亲环境行为和环境组织公民）的关联模型。利用从酒店业（餐厅）工作的 254 名员工分两次收集的数据并利用结构方程模型，我们的结果表明，绿色包容性领导是一种有前途的领导风格，可以鼓励与任务相关的亲环境行为 (PEB) 和组织公民环境（OCBE）。结果还表明，绿色倡议的气候是绿色包容性领导-亲环境行为联系之间的有效潜在机制。我们的模型是新颖的，其中提出和测试的关联以前没有被调查过。此外，该研究首次在环保管理实践研究中引入绿色倡议的气候。介绍了讨论、影响和限制。

KEYWORDS:

• Green-inclusive leadership
• pro-environmental behaviors
• climate for green initiative
• hospitality
• restaurants
• Palestine

关键词:

• 绿色包容领导
• 环保行为
• 绿色倡议的气候
• 款待
• 餐厅
• 巴勒斯坦

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).