Integrating green strategy and green human resource practices to trigger individual and organizational green performance: the role of environmentally-specific servant leadership

Integrating strategic, top-down management and employee-oriented, bottom-up approaches, this inquiry proposes a research model in which green management initiatives (i.e., the fusion of green strategy and green human resource practices) influence organizational green performance and in turn organizational performance. This research model was comparatively tested in South Korean and Vietnamese tourism service contexts. The research results revealed that in both samples, environmentally-specific servant leadership mediated the top-down relationship between green management initiatives and employees’ organizational citizenship behavior for the environment (OCBE), and employee OCBE mediated the bottom-up relationship between environmentally-specific servant leadership and organizational green performance. Nonetheless, while the mediating role of organizational green performance for the link between employee OCBE and organizational performance was corroborated in the Korean sample, this mediation mechanism was not found in the Vietnamese sample. Implications for green management literature and practice are presented.