Examining the effects of environmentally-specific servant leadership on green work outcomes among hotel employees: the mediating role of climate for green creativity

ABSTRACT

Drawing upon theories of conservation of resources, social information processing and organizational creativity, this study examines the potential effects of environmentally-specific servant leadership (ESSL) on green employee work outcomes (i.e., green innovative work behavior and organizational citizenship behavior for the environment) as well as the possible mediating role of climate for green creativity in the ESSL-green work outcomes relationships. Based on two-wave data collected from 237 employees working in Pakistani hotels, the findings showed that ESSL has a positive association with green work outcomes. Moreover, the results showed that the climate for green creativity mediates the positive association of ESSL with green innovative work behavior and organizational citizenship behavior for the environment. This study is one of the first studies which extends the servant leadership-innovative work behavior literature in hospitality to green innovative behaviors. Discussion, implications and limitations are discussed.

本研究以资源节约、社会资讯处理与组织创造力理论为基础探讨环境导向型仆人领导 ESSL) 对绿色员工工作成果的潜在影响绿色创新工作行为和组织公民行为 (环境) 以及绿色创新氛围在ESSL绿色工作成果关系中的可能中介作用.基于对237名在巴基斯坦酒店工作的员工的两波数据,;研究结果表明, ESSL与绿色工作成果呈正相关.此外, 本研究还发现, 绿色创新氛围对环境下的绿色创新工作行为和组织公民行为具有正向的中介作用.本研究是第一个将服务业领导创新工作行为文献扩展到绿色创新行为的研究.讨论, 影响和局限性进行了讨论.

KEYWORDS:

• Environmentally- specific servant leadership
• climate for green creativity
• green innovative work behavior
• organizational citizenship behavior for the environment
• hotels