Environment and Interdisciplinary Development

Thinking on Greenery in Organization: Investigating the Role of Environmentally Transformational Leadership and Spiritual Leadership and Its Role in Creating Proenvironmental Behaviors in Organizations

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Mohammad Keshavarz
Hossein Damghanian
Seyyed Abbas Ebrahimi
Abbasali Rastegar

Department of Business Management, Faculty of Economics, Management and Administrative Sciences Semnan University, Semnan, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22034/envj.2020.181312
Abstract
The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of environmentally transformational leadership, spiritual leadership and Environmental passion of employees on creating environmental behavior in the organization. This study was applied in a descriptive and it was done with surveyed manner. The statistical sample in this study was 212 employees of Shiraz municipality who were selected through available sampling method. Partial least squares method and Smart PLS2 software were used for data analysis. Convergent validity was used to assess the validity and Cronbach's alpha was used to fit the reliability and its coefficient was greater than 0.7 for all research constructs. The results show environmentally transformational leadership and spiritual leadership with a path coefficient (0.384) and (0.579) has a positive and significant effect on Environmental passion. The results confirmed the positive and significant effect of Environmental passion and proenvironmental behavior of employees with a path coefficient (0.613) and a significant coefficient (7.033). It also mediates Environmental passion in the organization of the relationship between environmentally transformational leadership and environmental behavior of employees, but does not mediate the relationship between spiritual leadership and proenvironmental behavior of employees. Based on the findings, it is suggested that municipality managers use transformational and spiritual leadership styles to control the behavior of their employees and thus create more Environmental enthusiasm for the presentation of environmental behaviors.

Keywords

Environmentally Transformational Leadership
Spiritual Leadership
Environmental Passion
Proenvironmental Behaviors of Employees
Subjects
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