Explaining the Structural Model of Employee Green Behavior in Advancing Business Sustainability: The Role of Ethical Leadership

Employees spend more than one-third of their time in the workplace, making their behaviors pivotal to organizational sustainability. Ethical leadership plays a crucial role in guiding employee conduct toward environmental goals through appropriate organizational mechanisms. This study develops and tests a structural model of the antecedents and outcomes of employee green behavior within the context of business sustainability, with a specific emphasis on ethical leadership. The research is applied in purpose and descriptive-survey in design. The statistical population comprised ۱۰۵ employees of the Kermanshah Cooperative Development Bank, of whom ۸۳ were selected using the Morgan table via simple random sampling. Data were collected through validated questionnaires, which demonstrated acceptable levels of validity (content, convergent, and discriminant) and reliability (factor loadings, Cronbach’s alpha, and composite reliability). Partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) revealed that ethical leadership positively influences employee green behavior, with this relationship strengthened by harmonious passion for the environment and green human resource management (GHRM) practices. Moreover, green creativity moderated the relationship between ethical leadership and GHRM, while the green psychological climate moderated the link between GHRM and green behavior. These findings suggest that to promote sustainable business practices, the bank should leverage ethical leadership and implement supportive mechanisms—including GHRM, harmonious environmental passion, a conducive green psychological climate, and green creativity—to effectively foster environmentally responsible employee behavior.

کلیدواژه ها:

Ethical leadership ، Green Behavior of Employees ، Green Human Resource Management ، Harmonious Environmental Passion ، Green Psychological Climate ، Green Creativity