Leadership’s Green Mandate: Fostering Organizational Citizenship for Environmental Sustainability

The growing demand for sustainable practices has led organizations to focus on fulfilling their social responsibilities towards the environment. Employees' environmentally conscious actions, identified as “organizational citizenship behavior for the environment” OCBE, are directed towards reducing their organization's ecological impact. This research explores the connection “between’’ “responsible leadership” (RL) and “OCBE” among 397 employees in public sector of Pakistan. This study employs a structural equation model (SEM) to evaluate the connection between RL & OCBE. Findings reveal that RL positively affects OCBE, with motivation acting as an intermediary in this connection. The study also shows that leader identification and motivation have a dual mediation role in the association between RL and OCBE. However, the research has some limitations, including the use of measures developed outside Pakistan to assess RL, the need for more investigation on the cross-cultural validity of RL, and the lack of examination of factors that may affect the effectiveness of this relationship. Future studies should consider incorporating factors specific to the Pakistani context and examine the impact of RL as defined by leaders' self-assessment on OCBE.