Antecedents of Employee Green Behavior in the Hospitality Industry

Noor Ullah Khan; Jie Cheng; Muhammad Yasir; Roselina Ahmad Saufi; Noorshella Che Nawi; Hanieh Alipour Bazkiaei

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.836109

Antecedents of Employee Green Behavior in the Hospitality Industry

Front Psychol. 2022 Jun 29:13:836109. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.836109. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Noor Ullah Khan^{1

2}, Jie Cheng³, Muhammad Yasir⁴, Roselina Ahmad Saufi¹, Noorshella Che Nawi⁵, Hanieh Alipour Bazkiaei⁶

Affiliations

¹ Malaysian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship and Business (MGSEB), Universiti Malaysia Kelantan (UMK), Pengkalan Chepa, Malaysia.
² Department of HRM, NUST Business School, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan.
³ School of International Education Anhui Xinhua University Hefei, Anhui, China.
⁴ Department of Management Sciences and Commerce, Bacha Khan University, Charsadda, Pakistan.
⁵ Global Entrepreneurship Research & Innovation Centre (GERIC), Universiti Malaysia Kelantan, Kota Bharu, Malaysia.
⁶ Faculty of Entrepreneurship and Business, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan (UMK), Pengkalan Chepa, Malaysia.

Abstract

Organizations are increasingly adopting green human resource management policies to encourage environmentally friendly behaviors. Research shows that adopting green policies and procedures is beneficial for the hospitality industry. However, limited empirical evidence exists on the association between environmental-specific ethical leadership, psychological green climate, and employees' green behavior. Therefore, this study intends to examine psychological green climate (PGC) as a mediator between the relationship of environmental-specific ethical leadership (ESEL) and employees' green behavior (EGB), specifically in the hotel industry of Pakistan. Data from 224 non-managerial position employees in the understudy sector was collected using a convenient sampling technique. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was utilized to examine the direct and indirect effects among the variables using the Smart PLS 3.3.3 version. This study showed that ESEL is positively related to PGC and EGB. Moreover, PGC is positively associated with EGB, and PGC mediated in the relationship between ESEL and EGB. Thus, current research highlights the significance of environmental-specific ethical leadership behavior, which assists in establishing a green psychological climate, thereby fostering employees' green behavior in the hotel industry of Pakistan.

Keywords: employees’ green behavior; environmental-specific ethical leadership; hospitality industry; psychological green climate; structural equation modeling.