Investigating the Mediating Role of Green Organizational Identity Through Green Inclusive Leadership and Organizational Citizenship Behavior for Environment

Abstract

As concerns about environmental issues is increasing, more pressure is incorporated to promote environmentally responsible behaviors by employees in the oil, gas, and petroleum industry. This research is an effort to investigate the role of Inclusive Leadership for building sustainable behavior of employees as OCBE. Further it has been tried to observe the role of Green Organizational Identity as a mediator for Inclusive leadership and OCBE. Total 150 employees of oil and gas projects in Islamabad were involved in data collection. Data analysis was performed through SPSS. The results show that inclusive leadership promotes OCBE of employees. However, sense of green is not a significant mediator in this relationship. Overall, the study suggests that leadership itself can be a powerful influence on sustainability at work, however green identification does not mediate that suggest despite leadership effort employees are still weak to build their identity with green. Thus, there is need to develop environmental strategies, transparent communication, and employee involvement in sustainability initiatives at organizational level.

 Keywords:   GIL, GOI, Oil and Gas Sector. OCBE