Title:
A Study on the Impact of Green Transformational Leadership on Employees' Green Behavior

Authors:
Tong Zheng, Jintong Wei, China

Abstract:

With the promotion of sustainable development concepts, green transformation has become key to achieving low-carbon development. As the executors of strategy, how to effectively motivate employees' green behaviors has become a critical issue in organizational management. This study integrates social exchange and social identity theories to construct a theoretical model with green transformational leadership as the independent variable, employee green behavior as the dependent variable, perceived cohesion as the mediating variable, and leader-member exchange (LMX) as the moderating variable. This study analyzed 431 valid paired questionnaires. Research findings indicate that green transformational leadership positively influences employees' green behaviors; perceived cohesion mediates this relationship; and leadership-member exchange (LMX) moderates the aforementioned relationship—specifically, high-quality LMX enhances the promotional effect of green transformational leadership on employees' green behaviors. This study mechanistically reveals the pathways through which green leadership influences employees' environmental behaviors, providing empirical evidence and management insights for enterprises to advance green management.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.51505/ijaemr.2025.1525