AUTHOR=Yue Ting , Gao Chenchen , Chen Feiyu , Zhang Lan , Li Mengting 

TITLE=Can empowering leadership promote employees’ pro-environmental behavior? Empirical analysis based on psychological distance

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=Volume 13 - 2022

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.774561

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2022.774561

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=Leadership styles, especially empowering leadership, will affect the psychological relationship between employees and organizations, and then affect employees’ positive behavior in the organization. In this research, we studied the effects of empowering leadership and psychological distance on employees’ pro-environmental behavior, and explored the mechanism of green organizational climate. Through adopting correlation analysis, statistical analysis and regression analysis, we conducted a multi-source field study with 873 valid employee questionnaires to verify our theory model. And the results showed that empowering leadership had a significant positive impact on psychological distance and employees’ pro-environmental behavior; and psychological distance played a partly intermediation role in the relationship between empowering leadership and employees’ pro-environmental behavior; Moreover, green organizational climate can promote employees’ pro-environmental behavior, but it can’t regulate between psychological distance and employees’ pro-environmental behavior. The findings obtained some intriguing insights, which were helpful to better guide employees to do pro-environmental behavior.