Given that employees’ pro-environmental behaviors (PEB) play a critical role in achieving sustainability goals, we utilized a mixed methods approach to explore the factors that may foster their PEBs. In view of the qualitative findings, we developed a conceptual model that examined green goal clarity as a mediator of the effects of green authentic and green servant leadership styles. The model investigated leader expectations of their followers (the Pygmalion effect) as a moderator of the impacts of these leadership styles on PEB, and the moderating role of environmental passion is investigated on the link between green goal clarity and PEB. Results suggest that the conceptual model developed in this study is viable, and all hypotheses are supported based on data gathered from hotel employees. Our research contributes to the literature on leadership styles and employee PEB, providing insights for practitioners and scholars seeking leadership strategies to promote and accomplish environmental sustainability goals.

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释放皮格马利翁的推动力：领导风格和领导者期望在推动员工亲环境行为中的作用


鉴于员工的亲环境行为 （PEB） 在实现可持续发展目标方面发挥着关键作用，我们采用混合方法来探索可能促进其 PEB 的因素。鉴于定性研究结果，我们开发了一个概念模型，该模型将绿色目标的清晰度作为绿色真实和绿色仆人式领导风格影响的中介来检验。该模型研究了领导者对其追随者的期望（皮格马利翁效应）作为这些领导风格对 PEB 影响的调节因素，并研究了环境热情在绿色目标清晰度与 PEB 之间联系中的调节作用。结果表明，本研究中开发的概念模型是可行的，并且所有假设都基于从酒店员工那里收集的数据得到支持。我们的研究为有关领导风格和员工 PEB 的文献做出了贡献，为寻求领导策略以促进和实现环境可持续性目标的从业者和学者提供了见解。