Responsible Leadership and Environmental Awareness: Factors for Environmental Performance
Keywords:
Responsible Leadership, Environmental Performance, Employees Environmental Awareness, Perceived Organizational Support.Abstract
The research aims to investigate the influence of responsible leadership on environmental performance. Previously, the environmental performance was investigated from different leadership styles but there is a dearth of research on responsible leadership. Thus, this research has focused on responsible leadership and aims to investigate the effect of responsible leadership on environmental performance and employee environmental awareness. Moreover, it aimed to investigate the mediating effect of employees’ environmental awareness between responsible leadership and environmental Performance. Furthermore, it has determined the moderating role of perceived organizational support between employee’s environmental awareness and environmental performance. The data were collected from employees of manufacturing SMEs using SPSS and SMERT PLS 3.8. The results highlighted that employees’ environmental awareness mediates the relationship of responsible leadership and environmental performance and perceived organizational support also moderates employees environmental awareness and environmental performance.
