ROLE OF MOTIVATIONAL STATES AND ORGANIZATIONAL RESILIENCE IN DETERMINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ETHICAL LEADERSHIP AND EMPLOYEE GREEN BEHAVIOUR

Abstract

Ethical leadership is considered a critical tool in achieving sustainable behavior in an organization. This study aims to examine the influence of ethical leadership on employees’ green behaviors via the mediating roles of motivational states and moderating role of organizational resilience. This study utilized Structural Equation Modelling to test the proposed model using a sample of human resource managers and employees selected randomly form the hospitality sector of Pakistan. Our findings revealed that ethical leadership practices influence the employees to motivate them internally and externally for the implementation of the green behavior in the organization. In addition, organizational resilience also helps to promote green behavior amongst the employees. Therefore, ethical leadership influences employees’ green behavior directly and indirectly via the mediating roles of motivational states and moderating role of organizational resilience in the hospitality sector. The study outcomes confirm the significance of incorporating sustainability measures into the human resource management system as well as the important role of human resource management on environmental sustainability for the attainment of long-term sustainability in hospitality development. The findings of our study are especially relevant to hospitality sector in all countries, as it encourages them to engage in more sustainable practices such as lowering resource consumption.  These findings provide important implications for ethical leadership-green behavior link by developing and validating a multilevel model empirically in the hospitality sector.