Environmental Transformational Leadership and Green Innovation in the Hotel Industry: Two Moderated Mediation Analyses

Ibrahim A Elshaer; Manal A Abdelrahman; Alaa M S Azazz; Mahmaod Alrawad; Sameh Fayyad

doi:10.3390/ijerph192416800

Environmental Transformational Leadership and Green Innovation in the Hotel Industry: Two Moderated Mediation Analyses

Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Dec 14;19(24):16800. doi: 10.3390/ijerph192416800.

Authors

Ibrahim A Elshaer^{1

2}, Manal A Abdelrahman³, Alaa M S Azazz^{4

5}, Mahmaod Alrawad^{3

6}, Sameh Fayyad²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Management, College of Business Administration, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsaa 380, Saudi Arabia.
² Hotel Studies Department, Faculty of Tourism and Hotels, Suez Canal University, Ismailia 41522, Egypt.
³ Quantitative Method Department, College of Business Administration, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsaa 380, Saudi Arabia.
⁴ Department of Tourism and Hospitality, Arts College, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsaa 380, Saudi Arabia.
⁵ Tourism Studies Department, Faculty of Tourism and Hotels, Suez Canal University, Ismailia 41522, Egypt.
⁶ College of Business Administration and Economics, Al-Hussein Bin Talal University, Ma'an 71111, Jordan.

Abstract

This research aims to investigate the relationships between transformational environmental leadership (ETL), organizational citizenship behavior for the environment (OCBE), and green innovation (GI). At the same time, green perceived organizational support (GPOS) and promotion focus (PF) roles were examined as moderators. Integrating transformational leadership, ability-motivation-opportunity (AMO), social exchange, expectancy, and regulatory focus theories, a quantitative research-based methodology was adopted with structural equation modelling (SEM), and smart partial least squares (PLS) program to analyze the obtained data from 388 guest-contact employees. The results show that ETL positively affects OCBE; in return, OCBE mediated the association between ETL and GI. The results also approved the positive moderation effects of the GPOS and PF variables on the association between ETL and OCBE. In the context of the hotel industry, we discuss the implications that these results have for both research and practice.

Keywords: environmental transformational leadership; green innovation; green perceived organizational support; hotels industry; organizational citizenship behaviors for the environment; promotion focus.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Humans
Industry
Leadership*
Mediation Analysis*
Motivation
Organizations

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the Deanship of Scientific Research, Vice Presidency for Graduate Studies and Scientific Research, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia [Project No. GRANT2005].