Utilizing Green Design as Workplace Innovation to Relieve Service Employee Stress in the Luxury Hotel Sector

Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Jun 23;17(12):4527. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17124527.

Abstract

This study is an empirical endeavor to provide a clear comprehension regarding how hotel green design as a workplace innovation contributes to relieving employee stress and emotional fatigue and improves job satisfaction and involvement in the formation of organizational citizenship behavior. A quantitative process was employed to attain the research goal. Our empirical findings demonstrated that a green design as a workplace innovation boosts the stress resilience that leads to the decreased emotional exhaustion and increased job satisfaction. In addition, job satisfaction and job involvement were the crucial drivers of the organizational citizenship behavior among the luxury hotel service employees. Moreover, stress resilience, satisfaction and involvement were significant mediators. Job satisfaction and involvement had the strongest influence on organizational citizenship behavior than other variables. The findings of our research will help hotel proprietors to invent efficient strategies to minimize employee stress and maximize fulfillment at work, which will eventually enhance the organizational citizenship behavior.

Keywords: emotional exhaustion; green design as workplace innovation; hotel employees; job involvement; job satisfaction; organizational citizenship behavior; stress resilience.

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Burnout, Professional / psychology*
  • Employment / psychology
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Industry
  • Interpersonal Relations
  • Job Satisfaction
  • Male
  • Mental Fatigue / prevention & control
  • Middle Aged
  • Organizational Culture*
  • Organizational Innovation*
  • Resilience, Psychological*
  • Social Behavior
  • Stress, Psychological
  • Workplace / psychology*