Is transformational leadership instrumental to environmental sustainability? A perspective of Pakistani textile sector.

This study proposes to highlight the role of transformation leadership in enabling environmental sustainability efforts. Inthis regard, a mediating role of green human resource management is investigated to understand the associationbetween transformation leadership and environmental sustainability. The study follows a quantitative and cross-sectionalresearch approach. A self-administered questionnaire was used to collect the responses from 200 managerial-levelemployees of ISO-14001 certified textile organizations in Lahore, Pakistan. Furthermore, the study hypotheses weretested by applying linear regression and Hayes’ Process in SPSS to determine the interconnected dependence of thestudy variables. The findings of the study demonstrate that transformational leadership plays an instrumental role in theimplementation of environmental sustainability strategy. The results also reveal that green human resource managementsignificantly mediates the relationship between transformational leadership and environmental sustainability. Theresearch outcomes portray a stringent need to apply the transforming abilities of the organizational leaders for fosteringenvironmental initiatives; a contribution to a broader cause of global environmental sustainability.