Impact of perceived organizational support and green transformational leadership on sustainable organizational performance: a SEM approach

Abstract

Purpose

The study aims to scrutinize the concomitant associations between corporate social responsibility (CSR), perceived organizational support (POS), green transformational leadership (GTL) and organizational performance (OP). This paper aims to explore the role of intervening variable to measure the strength on the relationship between CSR and OP.

Design/methodology/approach

This research administered a survey through self-administered questionnaire among the staff-level employees of construction companies of Nepal. Fully filled 305 responses from the participants were analyzed using a structural equation model. The study used self-structured questionnaire as research tool and face-to-face meetings as data collection technique.

Findings

The research indicates that POS showed competitive partial mediation relation between CSR and OP. Besides, a novel exploration of the moderation effect of GTL displays a supportive role in harmonizing the CSR with organizational support to achieve better OP. This study enriches empirical evidence to understand the linkage between CSR and POS in staff-level employees in the construction area. Moreover, the research shed a light on GTL 's moderating influence on the mediated model of CSR, POS and OP.

Research limitations/implications

Although the results of the study add to the current knowledge base, several limitations highlight avenues for future research. Future studies can explore the relationship in other study areas with added evidence on a similar result with different analysis patterns and study sample. The research model studied in the context of Nepal creating evidence as a representation for the developing countries.

Originality/value

The intervening role of POS and GTL gives new insight for the research-based organization based social behavior and performance

Citation

Kusi, M., Zhao, F. and Sukamani, D. (2021), "Impact of perceived organizational support and green transformational leadership on sustainable organizational performance: a SEM approach", Business Process Management Journal, Vol. 27 No. 5, pp. 1373-1390. https://doi.org/10.1108/BPMJ-09-2020-0419