22981: Does Green Work-Life Balance Predict the Sustainability Performance of Manufacturing Firms? (session 25686)

For manufacturers to address major environmental issues, sustainability is a vital concern. Stakeholders’ growing ecological awareness and knowledge are pushing manufacturers to adopt green work-life balance (GWLB) practices through green employee engagement (GEE) to create a psychological green climate (PGC) and foster pro-environmental behavior (PEB) to improve sustainability performance (SP). This research aimed to examine the impact of GWLB on SP through mediating roles of GEE, PGC, and PEB via serial mediation approach among ISO14001-certified manufacturing firms. Employing a quantitative research design, the sample of respondent firms was randomly targeted through a questionnaire. After data collection, the clean data was analysed using Smart PLS 4.0. Structural equation modeling (SEM) analysis results confirmed the positive relationship between GWLB, GEE, PGC, and PEB in predicting SP. Besides, GEE, PGC, and PEB serially mediated the relationship between GWLB and SP among ISO14001-certified manufacturing firms. This research also discusses essential managerial implications for organizations. This study assessed the critical antecedents of sustainable performance in the manufacturing industry. However, this study result can be generalized only to ISO14001-certified manufacturing firms.

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