Hotel Employees' Perception of Green Practices

The nexus between sustainable practices in hotels and future Gen Y hospitality students’ career path decisions

“…These findings corroborate the areas of sustainability hotels usually implement (Kirk, 1995), but contradicts many hotels' statements about their employee involvement and awareness of these practices. It does however, support Kim and Choy's (2011) claim to further understand how employees perceive the implementation of green practices in hotels.…”

“…Sustainable practices such as energy conservation and waste reduction are intrinsically related to employee participation (Kim & Choy, 2011). Previous studies have found a strong correlation between employee engagement in green initiatives and level of interest and participation in the hotel's environmental policies (Cantor, Morrow, & Montabon, 2012;Chan, Hona, Chan, & Okumus, 2014).…”

“…Previous studies have found a strong correlation between employee engagement in green initiatives and level of interest and participation in the hotel's environmental policies (Cantor, Morrow, & Montabon, 2012;Chan, Hona, Chan, & Okumus, 2014). Kim and Choy (2011) collected data from 220 employees working in green certified hotels in Florida examining employees' perceptions towards green initiatives developed by their hotel. Their study reported a strong correlation between success of green practices implemented and how important the employ-ee's perceived this particular green practice…”

Cost-Sharing Payment Plans and Cost-Saving Green Management Practices: The Case of Seasonal Employees in Turkey’s Small- and Medium-Sized Touristic Hotels

“…Notes: The items were adapted and translated from those of Kim (2009) [34]and Kim and Choi (2013) [35] Table 5.Regarding the importance level of green practices to them, participants were asked to indicate their level of agreement to each of the items according to the following 5-point Likert-type scale: (1) unimportant, (2) little important (3) moderately important, (4) very important, (5) extremely important. In fact, these items are about general green business and green management practices that are directly or indirectly related to HRM in organizations, hotels in our case.…”

A Study of the Affecting Vocational Education on Job Involvement and Job Burnout from the View of Venue Workers

“…(3) To have individuals be willing to do tasks well: In other words, vocational education, through the course design and arrangement, could enhance employees' job involvement and reduce the job burnout. Kim & Choi (2013) indicated that vocational education could improve working skills to enhance job involvement and quality; the systematic vocational education therefore became more important. Moreover, employees, after receiving vocational education, showed new technologies to satisfy the work guarantee and self-satisfaction as well as promote employees' work mood and reduce the job burnout.…”