The role of impression management in the impact of ethical leadership on green organizational behavior: A study on nurses

Abstract

Green behaviors of employees create value for organizations by improving their environmental performance. Ensuring sustainability is an important issue in healthcare organizations, which have a devastating impact on the environment with their remarkable consumption of resources and generation of waste. The purpose of this study is to examine the mediating role of impression management in the relationship between ethical leadership and green organizational behavior. The sample of the study is 418 nurses working in a public hospital in Afyonkarahisar, Turkey. The results were obtained as a result of descriptive statistics, explanatory factor analysis, reliability analysis, correlation analysis, and mediation analysis. The mediation analysis revealed that ethical leadership negatively affects impression management (B = -0.11, p < 0.05), ethical leadership positively affects green organizational behavior (B = 0.18, p < 0.05), and impression management negatively affects green organizational behavior (B = -0.20, p < 0.05). It was concluded that the mediating effect of impression management on the effect of ethical leadership on green organizational behavior was statistically significant (B = 0.022). Social learning theory was used to support the findings and discuss implications for research and practice. © 2024, IGI Global. All rights reserved.