Conceptualizing the Role of Target-Specific Environmental Transformational Leadership between Corporate Social Responsibility and Pro-Environmental Behaviors of Hospital Employees
(2022) In International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19(6).- 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 decarboniza-tion, 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... (More)
The healthcare sector throughout the world is identified for its outsized carbon footprint. Despite the mounting importance of employees’ pro-environmental behavior (PEB) for decarboniza-tion, 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 (β1 = 0.411) and indirectly, via ESTL, (β4 = 0.194) influenced the PEB of employees. It was also realized that A.V produced a conditional indirect effect in this relationship (β5 = 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.
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- Deng, Yuwei ; Cherian, Jacob ; Ahmad, Naveed ; Scholz, Miklas LU and Samad, Sarminah
- organization
- publishing date
- 2022-03-01
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- Contribution to journal
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- published
- subject
- keywords
- Altruistic values, Decarbonization of healthcare, Employees and organizational success
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- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
- volume
- 19
- issue
- 6
- article number
- 3565
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- 15 pages
- publisher
- MDPI AG
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- scopus:85126448190
- pmid:35329253
- ISSN
- 1661-7827
- DOI
- 10.3390/ijerph19063565
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- English
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- yes
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- b4e66514-cd28-40c2-9e3a-5b1352b1e408
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