Linking Empowering Leadership and Organizational Citizenship Behavior Toward Environment: The Role of Psychological Ownership and Future Time Perspective

Abstract

Organizations are confronted with increasing social responsibility to contribute to environmental sustainability. Employee organizational citizenship behavior toward the environment (OCBE) is considered essential to organizational environment performance. Drawing upon the theory of psychological ownership, the study investigated the effects of empowering leadership on employee OCBE by a sample of 374 employees in China. With the use of the bootstrapping technique in SPSS 25 to test our proposed moderated mediation model, results demonstrated a positive relationship between empowering leadership and OCBE through the mechanism of employee psychological ownership. Further, we found that the indirect effect is stronger when employees hold high rather than low future time perspectives. The theoretical implications for sustainability literature and practical implications for organizations striving for environmental sustainability are discussed.

Role of Responsible Leadership for Organizational Citizenship Behavior for the Environment in Light of Psychological Ownership and Employee Environmental Commitment: A Moderated Mediation Model

“…Lastly, this work extended the literature of employee environmental commitment in the eastern context. Some previous studies ( Jiang et al, 2019 ; Mi et al, 2019 ; Tuan, 2019 ; Pham et al, 2020 ) investigated the multiple leadership styles for organizational citizenship behavior of employees for the environment and tested multiple moderation effects, but the environmental commitment of employees was not included. This study endeavors and try to fill the gap by including employee environmental commitments as a moderator for responsible leadership and psychological ownership.…”

“…Second, this study also sheds light on existing models of responsible leadership and OCBE in connection with employees’ psychological ownership and analyzes its mediating effects on the primary relationship of OCBE and responsible leadership. Previously, the leadership role was highlighted regarding OCBE in the mediation of psychological ownership ( Jiang et al, 2019 ; Mi et al, 2019 ), but the role of responsible leadership was not examined. Thirdly, Tuan (2019) and Pham et al (2020) examined employee environmental commitment with environmentally specific charismatic leadership but did not explore the relationship between responsible leadership and OCBE.…”

Effects of CEO Identity on Non-family Managers’ Pay Dispersion in Family Firms: A Social Comparison Perspective

“…In addition, the long-tenure of a non-family CEO shows that their capability or human capital has been recognized by the holding family, which in turn shows increased trust from the family. In this way, the long-tenure non-family CEOs are more likely to obtain higher psychological ownership in family firms (Jiang et al, 2019). Under this circumstance, the non-family managers will recognize the value generated by these long-tenure CEOs, accept their contribution to the firm, and experience a feeling of admiration at the same time.…”

Environmentally Specific Servant Leadership and Employees’ Proenvironmental Behaviour in Hospitality Firms in South Africa

“…Businesses that intend to improve their environmental performance must encourage employees to engage in PEB and this engagement can be voluntary (organizational citizenship behaviours for the environment (OCBE)) and/or involuntary (work-task-related PEB (Jiang et al, 2019). Involuntary PEB is formally mandated by organisations to enable employees perform their work task in an environmentally friendly way (Wu et al, 2019).…”

“…Corporate greening stems from the extra role and the personal sense of PEB of employees. It is difficult for an organisation to mandate volunteerism and impossible to obtain genuine commitment of employees to the environment by bureaucratic fiat (Jiang et al, 2019). Therefore, this study focuses on employees' voluntary PEB.…”