How Can Hotel Employees Produce Workplace Environmentally Friendly Behavior? The Role of Leader, Corporate and Coworkers

Shanting Zheng; Lin Jiang; Wenjing Cai; Binfeng Xu; Xiaopei Gao

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.725170

How Can Hotel Employees Produce Workplace Environmentally Friendly Behavior? The Role of Leader, Corporate and Coworkers

Shanting Zheng
, Lin Jiang
, Wenjing Cai
, Binfeng Xu^*
, Xiaopei Gao

^*Corresponding author for this work

Management and Organisation

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Abstract

Although previous studies have acknowledged that leaders’ such environmental behaviors and environmental issues are becoming critical for long-term development, little research has focused on why, how and when perceived environmentally specific servant leadership contributes to employees’ workplace environmentally friendly behavior in the hotel industry. This paper aims to fill this research gap by using social identity theory to test employees’ green role identity as a mediator and their perceived corporate environmental responsibility and perceived coworkers’ work group green advocacy as moderators in the relationship between perceived environmentally-specific servant leadership and workplace environmentally friendly behavior. Using a sample of 527 leader-follower dyads from six hotels in mainland China at two points in time, we found that employees’ green role identity mediates the positive relationship between perceived environmentally specific servant leadership and employees’ workplace environmentally friendly behavior. Moreover, employees’ perceived corporate environmental responsibility and perceived coworkers’ work group green advocacy were found to positively moderate the relationship between perceived environmentally-specific servant leadership and green role identity and between green role identity and workplace environmentally friendly behavior, respectively. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

Original language	English
Article number	725170
Pages (from-to)	1-13
Number of pages	13
Journal	Frontiers in Psychology
Volume	12
Issue number	September
Early online date	23 Sept 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.725170
Publication status	Published - Sept 2021

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This research was funded by USTC Funding for Featured Liberal Arts, grant number YD2160002004; the Funds of S&T Innovation Strategy and Soft Science Research in Hefei, grant number 2020014; the Funds of S&T Innovation Strategy and Soft Science Research in Anhui Province, grant number 202006f01050007; the USTC Research Funds of the Double First-Class Initiative, grant number YD2160002010; the Fundamental Research Funds for The Central Universities, grant number WK2160000014; and the 2020 Provincial Quality Engineering Project of Online and Off-line Mixed Course, grant number 2020xsxxkc396.

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© Copyright © 2021 Zheng, Jiang, Cai, Xu and Gao.

Funding

This research was funded by USTC Funding for Featured Liberal Arts, grant number YD2160002004; the Funds of S&T Innovation Strategy and Soft Science Research in Hefei, grant number 2020014; the Funds of S&T Innovation Strategy and Soft Science Research in Anhui Province, grant number 202006f01050007; the USTC Research Funds of the Double First-Class Initiative, grant number YD2160002010; the Fundamental Research Funds for The Central Universities, grant number WK2160000014; and the 2020 Provincial Quality Engineering Project of Online and Off-line Mixed Course, grant number 2020xsxxkc396.

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production

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coworkers’ work group green advocacy
environmentally-specific servant leadership
green role identity
perceived corporate environmental responsibility
workplace environmentally friendly behavior

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