Green Training for Enhancing Employees’ Green Performance: Exploring the Role of Sustainable Leadership and Green Job Crafting
Year: 2026
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Abs tractObjective: In response to the growing organizational need for sus tainable development, this s tudy tried to identify mechanisms through which environmental training can lead to practical changes in employee behavior by integrating behavioral and managerial perspectives in the field of human resources.Accordingly, the aim of this research was to examine the role of green training in enhancing employees' green performance.The mediating role of green job crafting and the moderating role of sus tainable leadership were also tes ted.Methodology: To achieve the research objective, a survey method and s tructural equation modeling were employed.Using data collected from 144 ques tionnaires completed by employees of a gas company, the conceptual model of the s tudy was tes ted.SmartPLS 3 software was used for hypothesis tes ting.Findings: The results show that green training does not have a significant direct effect on employees' green performance, but it has a significant positive indirect effect through the mediating variable of green job crafting.Moreover, the relationship between green job crafting and green performance is influenced by the level of sus tainable leadership in the organization; specifically, this relationship is s trengthened when sus tainable leadership exis ts.Originality: From a theoretical perspective, by integrating three key cons tructs, i.e., green training, green job crafting, and sus tainable leadership into a novel conceptual framework, this s tudy contributes to the enrichment of literature on green human resource management.Implications: From a practical perspective, merely providing environmental training is not sufficient to improve employees' green performance; rather, the activation of job crafting behaviors and the creation of appropriate behavioral contexts are necessary conditions for achieving sus tainability goals.
Author: Elham Ebrahimi
Institution: Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies
Language: Persian
Subfield: Marketing
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7220735201