More and more organizations are initiating commitments to support environmental sustainability, and employees are the critical actors in the practice of corporate environmental policies, there has been a surge of interest in how organizations can inspire green behaviors among their employees, and several scholars have affirmed the critical significance of leaders influencing the green behaviors of their employees. In this paper, we examined how green transformational leadership (GTL), a type of transformational leadership focused on environmental sustainability, will relate to employees' green behaviors. Based on the job demand-resource (JDR) model, we developed and tested a dual-path model to explore the double-edged effects of GTL on employee proactive green behavior (PGB) and task green behavior (TGB). Analyzing a sample of 1,501 employees from 21 factories in southern China, we found that GTL is indirectly related to employee green behavior through employee role overload and employee environmental commitment. Furthermore, man-nature orientation moderated the negative relationship between GTL through employee role overload and employee green behavior while collectivism moderated the positive relationship between GTL through employee environmental commitment and employee green behavior.
