Greening the Workforce: A Strategic Way to Spur the Environmental Performance in the Hotel Industry

Abstract

The study examines the effect of green human resource management (GHRM) on the environmental performance of hotels. It also investigates the crucial role of pro-environmental psychological capital, psychological green climate, and pro-environmental behaviors to enhance the environmental performance. The target population consisted of green hotel employees. Data collected using a survey questionnaire from 374 employees were subjected to partial least squares structural equation modeling for analysis. As per the findings, green human resource practices (green training and development, green performance management and appraisal, and green empowerment) are significant predictors for pro-environmental psychological capital, which further contributes positively toward the psychological green climate. It was also found that the psychological green climate is positively related to pro-environmental behaviors. Findings revealed that employees’ pro-environmental behaviors play a significant role to enhance the environmental performance of hotels. Moreover, it is indicated that green HRM practices indirectly contribute to environmental performance through pro-environmental psychological capital, psychological green climate, and pro-environmental behaviors. This study is one of the few attempts to integrate the green HRM practices with pro-environmental psychological capital, green climate, and pro-environmental behaviors to predict the environmental performance in hotels. It examines the moderating role of environmental consciousness that was almost ignored. This study is important for hotels that are trying to adopt green HR practices. It provided several suggestions to the practitioners while making the strategy to promote environmental performance with the help of green HR practices through various ways. It also assists the hotel management to enhance pro-environmental psychological capital by promoting green recruitment and selection, green training and development, green performance management and appraisal, and green empowerment for the promotion of environmental performance.

A mediated–moderated model for green human resource management: An employee perspective

“…Focusing on the manufacturing sector, Masri and Jaaron (2017) conducted mixed research and stressed the importance of GHRM practices, namely, green employee empowerment and participation, green management of culture, green performance and appraisal, green recruitment and selection, green reward and compensation, and green training and development for environmental performance. Likewise, Nisar et al (2022) evidenced the significant correlations between GHRM and environmental performance in the hotel industry context. Recently, many scholars, instead of exploring the individual practice impact on firm environmental performance, utilized a single construct combining all of the practices items and explored its impact (Kim et al, 2019;Hameed et al, 2020).…”

“…Previously, many organizations in the hospitality industry that aimed to reduce waste, educate customers, and save energy have enhanced their environmental performance (Pham et al, 2020;Nisar et al, 2022;Umrani et al, 2022). Similarly, organizations operating in the manufacturing industry, especially in China, hope to educate their employees, suppliers, and trading partners to reduce waste and emissions, reduce the risk of environmental accidents and purchases of nonrenewable materials, and conserve energy, which results in improved environmental performance (Roscoe et al, 2019).…”

“…According to Kramar (2014), all those human resource management activities that positively impact environmental outcomes are considered GHRM. GHRM activities combine traditional human resource management practices such as recruitment, rewards, selection and training, and employee engagement (Masri and Jaaron, 2017;Al-Shammari et al, 2022;Nisar et al, 2022). Typically, GHRM offers several benefits, including lower costs, better efficiency, and developing and fostering a culture that leads to an environment sustainably (Khan et al, 2022).…”

Green finance development and environmental sustainability: A panel data analysis

“…Green finance development has been focused on in terms of a theoretical framework, production functions, and the role of technology in the economy. The environmental quality has to be improved as sustainable development is a major concern of the world today (Nasim et al, 2022a;Nisar et al, 2022). There is a need to save the environment for future generations.…”

“…The first is related to the fact that a clean environment is a common commodity for which economic agents are prepared to pay (although prices may fall). As economic expansion and technological progress coexist, it is plausible to assume that citizens in wealthier nations have access to technological advancements that make improving local air quality substantially less expensive (Nisar et al, 2022). As a result, individuals in affluent nations consume proportionately more air quality than those in poorer ones.…”