Author(s)

Fang Su, Ling Hu

College of Economics and Management, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi’an, China.

Responsible leadership focuses on the balance between economic, social and environmental benefits, which is in line with the value concept of green development. However, whether responsible leadership can effectively promote employees’ green behaviours and help enterprises achieve green and sustainable development still needs to be further explored. In order to explore the mechanism and boundary conditions of responsible leadership on employees’ green behaviours, the article constructs a dual-path research model based on the work requirement-resource theory and resource preservation theory, with work vitality and work pressure as mediating variables and self-efficacy as moderating variable, and analyses the data collected from 342 samples. The empirical results show that: responsible leadership positively influences employees’ green behaviours through the mediation of job vitality; responsible leadership negatively influences employees’ green behaviours through the mediation of job stress; and compared with low self-efficacy employees, high self-efficacy employees can generate more job vitality and less job stress under responsible leadership, which promotes employees’ green behaviours.

Responsible Leadership, Employee Green Behaviour, Job Dynamics, Job Stress, Self-Efficacy

Su, F. and Hu, L. (2024) Promoting or Hindering? Research on the Double-Edged Sword Effect of Responsible Leadership on Employee Green Behavior. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 12, 274-296. doi: 10.4236/jss.2024.122017.