TY - JOUR
T1 - Ethics in Action
T2 - Nurturing Green Behaviors in the Workplace Through Corporate Environmental Ethics and Supervisor Ethical Leadership
AU - Saleem, Shaham
AU - Zhang, Yixiang
AU - Bashir, Hafsa
AU - Rafiq, Muhammad Umair
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. 2025.
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - In today’s dynamic organizational landscape, promoting environmentally responsible behaviors among employees is paramount for sustainable business practices. However, the mechanisms through which corporate environmental ethics (CEE) influence these behaviors remain underexplored. This study addresses this gap by examining the direct and mediated (via environmental passion) pathways through which CEE promotes the required green behavior (RGB). Specifically, this study investigated the moderating influence of supervisor ethical leadership on the relationship between CEE and employees’ RGB. In addition, this study tested the spillover effect of RGB on employees’ proactive green behavior with the boundary condition of perceived distributive justice to facilitate the positive spillover effect between them. By conducting two multiwave and multisource studies, this study confirms the validity of its hypotheses. These findings contribute to the research on CEE’s essential but primarily neglected function in shaping workers’ green habits and spillover effects within the workplace.
AB - In today’s dynamic organizational landscape, promoting environmentally responsible behaviors among employees is paramount for sustainable business practices. However, the mechanisms through which corporate environmental ethics (CEE) influence these behaviors remain underexplored. This study addresses this gap by examining the direct and mediated (via environmental passion) pathways through which CEE promotes the required green behavior (RGB). Specifically, this study investigated the moderating influence of supervisor ethical leadership on the relationship between CEE and employees’ RGB. In addition, this study tested the spillover effect of RGB on employees’ proactive green behavior with the boundary condition of perceived distributive justice to facilitate the positive spillover effect between them. By conducting two multiwave and multisource studies, this study confirms the validity of its hypotheses. These findings contribute to the research on CEE’s essential but primarily neglected function in shaping workers’ green habits and spillover effects within the workplace.
KW - Corporate environmental ethics
KW - Environmental passion
KW - Ethical leadership
KW - Perceived distributive justice
KW - Proactive green behavior
KW - Required green behavior
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=105008401961&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10551-025-06050-5
DO - 10.1007/s10551-025-06050-5
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:105008401961
SN - 0167-4544
JO - Journal of Business Ethics
JF - Journal of Business Ethics
ER -