Be Happy And Be Hard

With the continued deterioration of the global ecosystem,environmental issues have caused widespread concern.Organizations around the world are increasingly concerned about the contribution their operations make to environmental sustainability,or at least not damaging environmental sustainability.In recent years,our country has paid more and more attention to protecting the environment,actively building a comprehensive environmental governance system,and vigorously promoting the green and sustainable development of enterprises.For this reason,while pursuing economic performance,enterprises must also take environmental performance into account.However,the improvement of corporate environmental performance not only depends on the active participation of individual employees who perform related behaviors within the organization,but also largely depends on employees' goodwill and personal behavior,that is,voluntary employee green behavior.In other words,if employees are unable to identify the enterprise's environmental strategies,plans and actions,and if employees are not actively involved in the enterprise's environmental management,sustainable development will be a "discussion on paper." Therefore,how to motivate employees' green behavior,especially voluntary employee green behavior,is a key step in corporate environmental management.Leadership is considered as "one of the most basic topics in organizational behavior",and the influence of leadership styles on employees' attitudes and behaviors has received widespread attention from the academic community.Leaders play a leading role in formulating corporate environmental strategies and promoting environmental protection actions.In particular,employees' direct leaders are responsible for not only implementing corporate strategies but also mobilizing employees'participation.These leaders play an irreplaceable role in implementing organizational strategies and leading employees.Employee green behavior is largely undertaken by employees who are voluntarily and keen to do,so not all leadership styles will have a positive impact on it.Ethical leadership refers to leaders who have high integrity,are morally conscious,are people/community-oriented,are good at motivating and empowering.As the public becomes more aware of environmental issues,organizations have an ethical and moral obligation to protect the environment and encourage employees to demonstrate environmental behavior.In this process,ethical leaders can better convey the connotation of "environmental ethics" of the organization and stimulate the enthusiasm of employees to participate.Therefore,exploring how ethical leadership affects voluntary green behaviors of employees not only enriches related research on ethical leadership,but also helps to better understand the voluntary green behaviors in the workplace.The factors affecting employees' green behaviors are complex.In addition to the direct leadership,employees' self-perception and psychological state also play a fundamental and key role in employees' green behaviors.This is because employees'attitudes,mental states and behavioral motivation directly affect their behavioral choices,while other external factors indirectly affect employees' behaviors.According to the theory of planned behavior,ethical leadership positively affects employee'attitudes to environmental issues,their understanding of subjective norms,and their perception of self-behavioral control,which ultimately has a positive effect on employees' choice of green behavior.Therefore,this study explores the role of green advocacy and performance pressure in the relationship between ethical leadership and voluntary green behavior.In conclusion,the purpose of this study is to explore the mechanisms of employees "being happy to do" and "being hard to do" on voluntary green behaviors.Taking ethical leadership and employees'voluntary green behavior as core variables,this article analyzes the mediating role of green advocacy,the moderating role of performance pressure.In this study,79 team leaders and 326 employees from two large manufacture companies in Northeast China and in Shandong Province were used as survey objects.The empirical analysis was performed using MPLUS7.0 and SPSS21.0.The conclusions are as follows:Ethical leaders attach importance to environmental issues,pass on environmental values to employees,and use environmental ethics to regulate employee's behavior.Therefore,employees' perception of ethical leadership is positively affecting their voluntary green behaviors in the workplace.Second,ethical leadership deepens employees' understanding of environmental issues and thus stimulate their green advocacy.Third,green advocacy reflects the positive attitude of employees to environmental initiatives and positively affects their voluntary green behavior.Therefore,green advocacy plays a mediating role in the relationship between ethical leadership and voluntary green behavior.Fourth,employee's performance pressure negatively regulates the relationship between green advocacy and voluntary green behavior.The greater the performance pressure,the less time and effort is invested in voluntary green behavior.The results of this paper provide enterprises with practical suggestions to promote employees' green behaviors and to achieve sustainable development.