On the Influence of Responsible Leadership on Team Green Behavior and Its Mechanism: Based on the Affective Events Theory

HUANG Liang; XU Hui

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HUANG Liang, XU Hui. On the Influence of Responsible Leadership on Team Green Behavior and Its Mechanism: Based on the Affective Events Theory[J]. Journal of Guangdong University of Finance & Economics, 2021, 36(2): 28-38.

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HUANG Liang, XU Hui. On the Influence of Responsible Leadership on Team Green Behavior and Its Mechanism: Based on the Affective Events Theory[J]. Journal of Guangdong University of Finance & Economics, 2021, 36(2): 28-38.

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On the Influence of Responsible Leadership on Team Green Behavior and Its Mechanism: Based on the Affective Events Theory

HUANG Liang,
XU Hui

School of Business Administration, Guangdong University of Finance & Economics, Guangzhou 510320, China

Received Date: 2020-09-18
Available Online: 2021-05-06
Publish Date: 2021-03-28

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Based on the affective events theory, the paper investigates the internal mechanism and its boundary conditions between responsible leadership and team green behavior, makes an empirical analysis by using a multi-source and multi-wave investigation on 53 work teams from manufacturing companies in the Pearl River Delta. Statistical results demonstrate that responsible leadership promotes team green behavior; connectivity between team and nature, a kind of team positive affective experience, mediates the relationship between responsible leadership and team green behavior; the value of team Mean had a negative moderating effect on the relationship between responsible leadership and the connectivity between team and nature, and team moral reflectiveness had a positive moderating effect on the connectivity between team and nature and team green behavior; the indirect effect of responsible leadership on team green behavior is the most significant through connectivity between team and nature when the team has weak values of the Mean and strong moral reflectiveness. The aforesaid findings can provide important practical implications for improving the management practice of cultivating managers' responsible leadership and utilizing it to promote team green behavior in enterprises.
- responsible leadership,
- team green behavior,
- team,
- green behavior,
- affective events theory,
- Pearl River Delta,
- manufacturing enterprise

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