Conceptualizing the Role of Target-Specific Environmental Transformational Leadership between Corporate Social Responsibility and Pro-Environmental Behaviors of Hospital Employees

Yuwei Deng, Jacob Cherian, Naveed Ahmad, Miklas Scholz and Sarminah Samad
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Yuwei Deng: School of Marxism, Heilongjiang University, Harbin 150080, China
Jacob Cherian: College of Business, Abu Dhabi University, Abu Dhabi P.O. Box 59911, United Arab Emirates
Naveed Ahmad: Faculty of Management Studies, University of Central Punjab, Lahore 54000, Pakistan
Miklas Scholz: Division of Water Resources Engineering, Department of Building and Environmental Technology, Faculty of Engineering, Lund University, P.O. Box 118, 221 00 Lund, Sweden
Sarminah Samad: Department of Business Administration, College of Business and Administration, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh 11671, Saudi Arabia

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 6, 1-15

Abstract: The healthcare sector throughout the world is identified for its outsized carbon footprint. Despite the mounting importance of employees’ pro-environmental behavior (PEB) for decarbonization, the role of PEB in a healthcare context was less emphasized previously, especially in a developing country context. To address this knowledge gap, the current work was carried out to examine the relationship between a hospital’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives and PEB with the mediating effect of environmental-specific transformational leadership (ESTL). At the same time, the conditional indirect effect of altruistic values (AV) was also considered in the above relationship. The data were collected through a questionnaire by employing a paper-pencil method from the hospital employees ( n = 293). By considering the structural equation modeling, the hypothesized relationships were validated. The results indicated that CSR directly ( β 1 = 0.411) and indirectly, via ESTL, ( β 4 = 0.194) influenced the PEB of employees. It was also realized that A.V produced a conditional indirect effect in this relationship ( β 5 = 0.268). This work tends to help a hospital to improve its environmental footprint through CSR and ESTL. Moreover, the current work also highlights the role of employees’ values (e.g., A.V) to guide the environment-specific behavior of employees.

Keywords: altruistic values; decarbonization of healthcare; employees and organizational success (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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