How to Facilitate Employee's Workplace Environmental-Friendly Behavior: The Joint Impact of Green Transformational Leadership and Green Human Resource Management
Hung-Yi Liao is Associate Professor in the Department of Human Resource Management at the School of Business at the Shaoguan University. He received his PhD from the Department of Business Administration, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. His main research directions are leadership, workplace deviance behavior and human resource management practices. Email: hyliao@sgu.edu.cn
Given the severity of environmental issues today, stimulating employees' pro-environmental behaviors has gradually become a management issue of concern for organizations. This study begins with two major green management tools, green transformational leadership, and green human resource management, to explore whether they can interact to influence employees' pro-environmental behavior. Specifically, it examines the interactive effects of green transformational leadership and green human resource management on employees' pro-environmental behavior and investigates the mediating role of environmental commitment in this relationship. This study used a questionnaire survey to collect data from 186 employees in China in two waves. The results indicate that green transformational leadership, green human resource management, and environmental commitment can positively influence employees' proenvironmental behavior. In addition, green transformational leadership and green human resource management positively interact with employees' environmental commitment and pro-environmental behavior. Finally, environmental commitment played a mediating role in this relationship. These findings provide important theoretical and practical insights for organizations to implement green management effectively.
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