articleJournal of Organizational BehaviorJul 27, 2012Closed access

Greening organizations through leaders' influence on employees' pro‐environmental behaviors

JLJennifer L. RobertsonJBJulian Barling

Queen's University

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Abstract

Summary Climate change is a serious global issue that poses many risks to environmental and human systems. Although human activity is cited as the main cause of climate change and organizations significantly contribute to climate change, research that investigates workplace pro‐environmental behaviors remains scarce. We develop and test a model that links environmentally‐specific transformational leadership and leaders' workplace pro‐environmental behaviors to employees' pro‐environmental passion and behaviors. Structural equation modeling on data from 139 subordinate–leader dyads ( M ages = 37.42 and 40.17 years, respectively) showed that leaders' environmental descriptive norms predicted their…

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  • Transformational leadership
  • Passion
  • Structural equation modeling
  • Psychology
  • Social psychology
  • Public relations
  • Political science
UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • Climate action
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