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Corporations are beginning to mitigate their contributions to environgmental degredation by implementing various environmental initiatives. The success of these initiatives, however, largely rests on those who lead these companies. The focus of this chapter is on how leaders can help improve their organizations' environmental performance by positively a ecting subordinates' workplace proenvironmental attitudes and behaviors. This chapter explores the conceptualization of environmental leadership, the processes through which it positively a ects corporate environmental issues, and the characteristics of these leaders. This chapter reviews and synthesizes the empirical evidence linking environmental leadership to a variety of employees' pro-environmental initiatives and examines a case example of environmental leadership at Steam Whistle Brewing Company, which is located in Ontario, Canada. The chapter concludes by providing some thoughts for future research on ways in which organizational leadership might in uence corporate environmental sustainability.We are exposed to people in leadership roles (e.g., parents, teachers, sports coaches, organizational leaders), both personally and

Author

Jennifer L. Robertson; Julian Barling

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published

2015

Language

EN