GREEN TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND GREEN PERFORMANCE: THE MEDIATION EFFECTS OF GREEN MINDFULNESS IN BANKING SECTOR IN HATTON AREA, NUWAR{-ELIYA DISTRICT

Abstract

There is growing public concern about the environment and related protection issues that have occurred in recent years. Hence, the environmental concern has become an emerging topic in organization's human resource management strategy. especially in improving employee's environmental behaviour at work. Thus, the organizational citizenship behaviour toward the environment green performance has been currently attracting scholars in management. According to that, the purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of green transformational leadership on green perfoflnance with the mediating effect of green mindflllness. The quantitative study was conducted based on primary data which were gathered from 224 employees from eight selected commercial banks through closed ended questionnaires. The collected data were analysed by using bivariate and multivariate analysis in a computer based Statistical Package for the Social Science 22d'version software. The results indicate that green transfornational leadership positir.ely influences green mindflilness and green perfomance. Moreover, this study dernonstrates that the positive relationship between green transformational leadership and green performance is partially mediated by the one mediator: green mindfulness. It means that green transforunational leadership can niit only directly affect green performance positivelybut also indirectly affect it pcsitively through green mindfulness. Therefore, finns need to raise their green transformational leadership and green mindfulness, to increase their green performance. Thus, the research results suggest that, it is vital for practitioners to build the fit between employees and the organization's pro-environmental values so as to further promote their positive reaction to green transformational leadership and perfonnance in pro environmental behaviours. Furlher, the present study marts the confluence between green transformational leadership and green performance research streams and provides a moderated mediation mechanisn to shed light on such a relationship