Abstract:
Among the burning issue of our times is climate change. Considering this, socially conscious
organizations are increasingly doing their bit by instituting environmental management systems
and adopting ‘green’ practices. These systems and practices yield desired results only when
employees own them and complement them with their voluntary pro-environmental behaviors
which are known as organizational citizenship behaviors towards environment. Accordingly,
scholars and managers alike are interested in the enrichment of their understanding of
antecedents of organizational citizenship behavior towards environment as well as mediational
pathways connecting the former with the latter. Invoking the theoretical lens of social
information processing approach, this study combines the interdisciplinary literature at the
intersection of environmental psychology and organizational behavior to broaden the
contemporary understanding of the voluntary pro-environmental behaviors at workplace. More
specifically, this quantitative, survey-based study theoretically links and empirically tests the
impact of environmental transformational leadership on organizational citizenship behavior
towards environment via the mediational mechanism of perceived meaningful work. Cross sectional data from a sample of 311 employees working in Pakistan’s hospitality sector were
collected and analyzed to test the hypothesized relationships through regression analysis and
bootstrapping resampling procedure using SPSS v.22 and PROCESS macro v.3.5 respectively.
Results indicate statistically significant indirect effect of perceived meaningful work on the
relationship between environmental transformational leadership and organizational citizenship
behavior towards environment. In totality, the findings facilitate as well as advance the ongoing
conversation in interdisciplinary literature at the intersection of environmental psychology and
organizational behavior. Limitations of the present study have been duly acknowledged and
directions for future scholarly pursuits have been discussed towards the end of this document.
