How Environmental Leadership Boosts Employees' Green Innovation Behavior? A Moderated Mediation Model

Binfeng Xu; Xiaopei Gao; Wenjing Cai; Lin Jiang

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.689671

How Environmental Leadership Boosts Employees' Green Innovation Behavior? A Moderated Mediation Model

Front Psychol. 2022 Jan 27:12:689671. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.689671. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Binfeng Xu^{1

2}, Xiaopei Gao^{1

2}, Wenjing Cai^{1

2

3}, Lin Jiang¹

Affiliations

¹ School of Public Affairs, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.
² Intellectual Property Research Institute, Hefei, China.
³ Department of Management and Organization, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Abstract

We examined employees' green organizational identity as a mediator and green organizational climate as a moderator in the relationship between environmental leadership and follower green innovation behavior. Through collecting data (N = 313) from public organizations in China at different times, we found that environmental leadership is positively related to employees' green innovation behavior through increasing their green organizational identity. Meanwhile, the mediating relationship is conditional on the moderator of green organizational climate. The current study aims to clarify the mechanism and boundary condition in the relationship between environmental leadership and employees' green innovation behaviors.

Keywords: environmental leadership; green innovation behavior; green organizational climate; green organizational identity; moderated mediation.