The Interplay between Corporate Social Responsibility at Employee Level, Ethical Leadership, Quality of Work Life and Employee Pro-Environmental Behavior: The Case of Healthcare Organizations

Edina Molnár, Asif Mahmood, Naveed Ahmad, Amir Ikram and Shah Ali Murtaza
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Edina Molnár: Institute of Management and Organizational Sciences, University of Debrecen, 4032 Debrecen, Hungary
Asif Mahmood: Department of Business Studies, Namal Institute, Mianwali 42250, Pakistan
Naveed Ahmad: Faculty of Management Studies, University of Central Punjab, Lahore 54000, Pakistan
Amir Ikram: Institute of Business & Management, University of Engineering and Technology, GT Road, Lahore 54890, Pakistan
Shah Ali Murtaza: Institute of Management and Organizational Sciences, University of Debrecen, 4032 Debrecen, Hungary

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 9, 1-16

Abstract: The notion of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been around for many decades. However, even in 2021, its spectrum is still evolving. Several studies addressed CSR for realizing different organizational outcomes. However, its significance in achieving employee-related consequences is relatively new to the literature. In the same manner, it is not clear from existing literature how ethical leaders can impact their followers’ CSR-related behavior, for example, employee pro-environmental behavior (EPB). With this background, the current study aims to explore the relationship of CSR at the employee level (CSR-E) with EPB through the mediating effect of ethical leadership (ELS) in the healthcare sector of a developing economy. This study also proposes a conditional indirect effect of quality of work-life (QWL) in this relationship. The data for the current study were obtained from different hospitals located in a large city through a self-administered questionnaire. The data were examined through the structural equation modeling (SEM) technique. The results validated that CSR-E positively influences EPB, and ELS partially mediates this relationship. Furthermore, the results also confirmed the presence of the conditional indirect effect of QWL in the proposed relationship of the current study. These findings will be helpful for healthcare policymakers to enhance the pro-environmental behavior of employees at the workplace through CSR-E and ELS. These results will also be helpful in reducing the overall environmental footprint of a hospital.

Keywords: corporate social responsibility; pro-environmental behavior; quality of work-life; ethical leadership; values (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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