Driving Sustainable Supply Chains through Green Leadership, Culture, and Employee Engagement

Abstract

This study aims at analyzing the drivers of sustainable supply chain management in organizations. It seeks to determine the functions of leadership, organizational practices as well as employee behaviors in facilitating sustainability results. The study enables a holistic view of the processes through which efficient and responsible supply chain operations are achieved through the analysis of these relations. The study was conducted using Partial Least Squares-Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) and a well- researched survey questionnaire. The results indicate that Green Intrinsic Motivation, Green Knowledge Sharing, Green Work Engagement and Task-Related Pro-Environmental Behavior are key drivers of Sustainable Supply Chain Management. Such green behaviors are closely connected with green leadership, organizational culture, and green thinking, which make leadership and cultural support significant. The mediation analysis supports the fact that the organizational factors and sustainable supply chain practices depend on such key processes as motivation, knowledge sharing, and pro-environmental behavior. Nonetheless, the negative moderating impact of Green Work Engagement on Knowledge Sharing implies that complete engagement is not necessarily beneficial to knowledge sharing, which brings out the multidimensionality of employee engagement in sustainability activities. In general, although green behaviors are the core of sustainability, their performance relies on internal processes of engagement and organizational support. The theoretical contribution includes incorporating the notions of green transformational leadership, green thinking, and green organizational culture into a unified model along with the rest of the employee practices and engagement, which aids in the promotion of the literature on sustainable supply chain management. The practical implications of the study mention the need of any organization to create green transformational leadership, encourage green thinking and evolve sustainability-focused culture, where managers and employees actively support the efforts to address the sustainability of supply chain management and long-term effectiveness of operations.