Green servant leadership and employees' workplace green behavior: interplay of green self-efficacy, green work engagement, and environmental passion

Employees' workplace green behavior is essential for achieving organizational competitive advantage, sustainable success, and natural environment protection. Despite significant progress in identifying predictors of employees' workplace green behavior, there is still a dearth of research to explore how green servant leadership triggers employees' workplace green behavior and its underlying mechanisms. Drawing on the overarching underpinnings of the social learning theory, we investigate the mediating role of employees' green self-efficacy and green work engagement and the moderating effect of employees' harmonious environmental passion. Systematic random sampling was introduced to gather data from 403 dyads (employees-supervisors) from 3-star and 4-star hotels in Pakistan and analyzed using a partial least squares structural equation modeling technique (PLS-SEM). Consistent with the hypotheses, the results reveal that green servant leadership positively affects employees' workplace green behavior, and this relationship is mediated by employees' green self-efficacy and green work engagement. Further, the influence of green servant leadership on employees' workplace green behavior is notably more substantial for employees with a high level of harmonious environmental passion. These findings offer valued suggestions for organizational practitioners along with theoretical implications.