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GREEN HUMAN RESOURCE PRACTICE AND TEAM INNOVATION PERFORMANCE: ROLES OF TEAM BOUNDARY-SPANNING BEHAVIOR AND RESPONSIBLE LEADERSHIP⁷
Wei Hu, Fuqiang Zhao, Yu Zhang, Tracy Lu

ABSTRACT. The green human resources practice aims to achieve harmonious development between employees and the environment, employees and organizations, and employees and stakeholders by stimulating individual green behavior, thereby enhancing team innovation performance. Although team boundary-spanning behavior is one of the important factors affecting team innovation, existing study has scarcely paid attention to the impact of green human resource practice on team innovation performance. Thus, to explore the internal mechanism and boundary conditions of the influence of green human resource practice on team innovation performance, 312 questionnaire survey data from 23 large enterprises in the service, financial, construction and education industries in China from October 2020 to March 2021 was used. Based on resource dependence theory, from the perspective of team boundary-spanning behavior, the intermediary mechanism and boundary conditions between team green human resource practice and team innovation performance were examined. Results show that green human resource practice has a positive effect on team boundary-spanning behavior and team innovation performance; team boundary-spanning behavior mediates the relationship between green human resource practices and team innovation performance; responsible leadership moderates the impact of green human resource practice on team innovation performance. At the team level, this study reveals the impact mechanism of green human resource practices on team innovation performance and determines the boundary conditions that affect the existence. Conclusions lay a theoretical foundation for the expansion of green human resource practice and provide a decision-making reference for the improvement of team innovation performance.

KEYWORDS:  green human resource management, team boundary-spanning behavior, responsible leadership, team innovation performance.

JEL classification:  M12, M51, M52, M53.

⁷Acknowledgement:  This study was supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 2019-YB-034).