Effectiveness of Green Transformational Leadership under Human Resources Sustainable Competency of Golestan Oil Company

Subject Areas : environmental management

Ehsan Shahhosseini ¹ , Mahmudreza Mostaghimi ² , Samere Shojaie ³

1 - PhD Student, Department of Management, Aliabad Katoul Branch, Islamic Azad University, Aliabad Katoul, Iran.
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration, Aliabad Katoul Branch, Islamic Azad University, Aliabad Katoul, Iran. *(Corresponding Author)
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration, Aliabad Katoul Branch, Islamic Azad University, Aliabad Katoul, Iran.

Received: 2021-08-22 Accepted : 2021-12-08 Published : 2023-07-23

Keywords: Green Transformational Leadership, Intuitive Fuzzy Sets (IFSs), Human Resources Sustainable Competency,

Abstract :

Background and Objective: The Purpose of this research is evaluating the effectiveness of green transformational leadership under the human resources sustainable competency of Golestan Oil Company by Intuitive fuzzy sets. Material and Methodology: This research is a developmental research in terms of purpose, because of the lack of a basis for evaluating the effectiveness of green transformational leadership under a sustainable human resource competency system in previous research, based on meta-analysis in the first step, an attempt was made to identify components as analytical basis for research and themes as decision variables. Then, in order to explain the identified components and themes, in a small part, Intuitive Fuzzy Sets (IFSs) was used to determine the most effective dimension of green transformational leadership based on the most important theme of sustainable human resource competence. In this study, the target population consisted of two sections: qualitative and quantitative. In the qualitative section, with the help of 15 experts and experts in the field of human resource management at the university level, an attempt was made to identify research components, components and propositions in the form of scores. In the quantitative sector, 21 middle managers of the oil company in Golestan province participated to evaluate the quantitative sector analyzes. Findings: The results showed that, despite the participatory competencies of human resources, the most important dimension of green transformational leadership is the effectiveness of opportunity. Discussion and Conclusion: In fact, the result of this study reflects the fact that the participatory competence of human resources strengthens the level of interoperability and communication within the organization in the field of decision-making on environmental issues and problems and it strengthens the dimension of effective opportunity in transformational green leadership to create more ideas and support for human resource innovations in the field of green operations in the oil company.

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