TY - JOUR T1 - How Does Environmentally Specific Servant Leadership Fuel Employees' Low-Carbon Behavior? The Role of Environmental Self-Accountability and Power Distance Orientation. AU - Xia,Yuhuan, AU - Liu,Yubo, AU - Han,Changlin, AU - Gao,Yang, AU - Lan,Yuanyuan, Y1 - 2022/03/04/ PY - 2022/01/25/received PY - 2022/02/26/revised PY - 2022/03/02/accepted PY - 2022/3/10/entrez PY - 2022/3/11/pubmed PY - 2022/4/12/medline KW - carbon neutrality KW - environmental self-accountability KW - environmentally specific servant leadership KW - low-carbon behavior KW - power distance orientation KW - social learning theory JF - International journal of environmental research and public health JO - Int J Environ Res Public Health VL - 19 IS - 5 N2 - Environmental problems caused by excessive carbon emissions are becoming increasingly prominent and have received heightened attention in recent years. Encouraging people to adopt low-carbon behavior to reduce carbon emissions is desirable. Based on social learning theory, we developed and tested a moderated mediation model to investigate when and how environmentally specific servant (ESS) leadership impacts employees' low-carbon behavior (i.e., private low-carbon behavior and public low-carbon behavior). We tested our theoretical framework with a sample of 483 subordinates and their direct supervisors working in northern China. The results indicate that ESS leadership is positively related to employees' low-carbon behavior, and that environmental self-accountability plays a mediating role in this relationship. In addition, power distance orientation strengthens the direct effects of ESS leadership on employees' environmental self-accountability and low-carbon behavior, as well as the indirect effect of ESS leadership on private low-carbon behavior via environmental self-accountability. Our findings contribute to the literature surrounding ESS leadership and low-carbon behavior, and help to promote green development and thus achieve the goals of carbon neutrality and decreasing carbon dioxide emissions. SN - 1660-4601 UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/35270716/How_Does_Environmentally_Specific_Servant_Leadership_Fuel_Employees'_Low_Carbon_Behavior_The_Role_of_Environmental_Self_Accountability_and_Power_Distance_Orientation_ DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -