ISSN 1671-3710
CN 11-4766/R
主办:中国科学院心理研究所
出版:科学出版社

心理科学进展 ›› 2023, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (5): 827-839.doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1042.2023.00827

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环保服务型领导:效果与机制

邹艳春, 章惠敏, 彭坚(), 田一雯   

  1. 广州大学管理学院, 广州 510006
  • 收稿日期:2022-05-07 出版日期:2023-05-15 发布日期:2023-02-13
  • 通讯作者: 彭坚 E-mail:pengjiannut@163.com
  • 基金资助:
    国家自然科学基金项目(71902048);广东省哲学社会科学规划2020年度一般项目(GD20CGL58)

Environmentally specific servant leadership: Consequences and their underlying mechanism

ZOU Yanchun, ZHANG Huimin, PENG Jian(), TIAN Yiwen   

  1. School of Management, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510006, China
  • Received:2022-05-07 Online:2023-05-15 Published:2023-02-13
  • Contact: PENG Jian E-mail:pengjiannut@163.com

摘要:

随着“碳达峰”与“碳中和”纳入我国经济社会发展全局, 绿色发展成为当代企业管理必经之路。环保服务型领导作为企业绿色发展的重要保障, 近年引起学界关注。环保服务型领导指领导培养员工的环保价值观与环保知识技能, 服务于员工环保活动。为探究环保服务型领导的影响效果及作用机制, 本文建立了一个多层次模型:环保服务型领导促进员工环保行为与创新、团队环保绩效、组织环保绩效; 资源保存理论、角色认同理论、社会学习理论、自我决定理论和计划行为理论是解释上述效应的主要理论机制。未来研究可从本土研究、双刃剑效应、认知—情感机制、研究层次与方法、行业对比分析以及影响因素等视角完善或拓展环保服务型领导研究。文章既为国内学者厘清环保服务型领导研究的效果与机制, 又能指导企业如何通过领导实践促进绿色发展, 助力国家“双碳”目标的执行与实现。

关键词: 环保服务型领导, 环保领导力, 环保行为, 环保绩效

Abstract:

Carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals are incorporated into the overall situation of China’s economic and social development. In this context, enterprises should actively adapt to the requirements of green development and strive for the “dominant position” of future market competition. As a leadership practice that focuses on environmental well-being, an environmentally specific servant leader can be an important guarantee for the enterprise’s green development. As such, the concept of environmentally specific servant leadership has attracted much attention from both scholars and practitioners in recent years.
Environmentally specific servant leadership is defined as leading with motivation to develop pro-environmental values and knowledge in employees. Environmentally specific servant leaders tend to serve employees in their pursuit of green goals and contributions. Under the supervision of such leaders, followers can proactively acquire not only green-related knowledge and skills but also green value. Moreover, environmentally specific servant leadership is a practice of leadership that places environmental benefits over economic benefits for himself or herself as well as for the enterprise, focusing on contributing to the green and sustainable growth of the enterprise and a larger community.
This paper introduces the concept and measurement of environmentally specific servant leadership and systemically reviews its multilevel influences on employees’ green output, team green performance, and organizational green performance. Specifically, the outcome variables of employees’ green output include green behavior (low-carbon behavior, voluntary green behavior, organizational environmental citizenship behavior, and green performance) and green innovation (green creativity and green innovative work behavior).
Conservation of resources theory, role identity theory, social learning theory, self-determination theory, and theory of planned behavior are important theories that could explain why environmentally specific servant leadership leads to beneficial green outcomes. Specifically, conservation of resources theory was used to explain the mediating role of employees’ green crafting and green (creativity) climate; role identity theory was used to explain the mediating role of team green identification, employees’ green role identity, employees’ environmental engagement, corporate social responsibility and employees’ harmonious environmental passion; social learning theory was used to explain the mediating role of employees’ green self-efficacy and employees’ environmental self-accountability; self-determination theory was used to explain the mediating role of employees’ green intrinsic motivation; and theory of planned behavior was used to explain the moderation of perceived organizational support for green behaviors as well as pro-environmental person-group fit. Explaining the underlying mechanism of environmentally specific servant leadership, conservation of resources theory and role identity theory were both used at the individual level and team level, while the other theories were only used at the individual level.
Finally, this paper demonstrates six directions for future research. First, future research could explore environmentally specific servant leadership in the Chinese context, including the concepts, measurements, and contingency mechanisms. Second, future research should further integrate the double-edged sword effects of environmentally specific servant leadership on employees and leaders. Third, this paper suggests that future research explore the cognitive-affective mechanisms of environmentally specific servant leadership, constructing a parallel mediating model or an interactive mediating model. Fourth, future research could deepen the extant explorations about the relationship between environmentally specific servant leadership and team/organizational green outputs or expand the multilevel research about the consequences and their underlying mechanism of environmentally specific servant leadership. In addition, future research could also expand the research methods by using the experience sampling method, scenario simulated method, or behavioral experimental method. Fifth, future research should further expand the research sample to compare and explore the effects of environmentally specific servant leadership in different industries. Finally, this paper encourages future research to identify antecedents of environmentally specific servant leadership, such as the internal and external environment as well as the interaction between situational factors and personal traits.
This paper clarifies the effect and mechanism of environmentally specific servant leadership research for internal scholars. At the same time, we expect to have practical insights for enterprises to realize sustainable development through leadership practices and help achieve China’s carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals.

Key words: environmentally specific servant leadership, green leadership, green behavior, green performance

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