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The Antecedents of Hotels’ Green Creativity: The Role of Green HRM, Environmentally Specific Servant Leadership, and Psychological Green Climate

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  • Mansour Alyahya

    (Department of Management, College of Business, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa 31982, Saudi Arabia)

  • Meqbel Aliedan

    (Department of Management, College of Business, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa 31982, Saudi Arabia)

  • Gomaa Agag

    (Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham NG1 4FQ, UK
    University of Sadat City, Sadat City, Menofia, Egypt)

  • Ziad H. Abdelmoety

    (School of Business, University of Dundee, 1-3 Perth Rd, Dundee DD1 4JW, UK)

Abstract

As a consequence of climate change, hotels are under mounting pressure to cut their carbon emissions, reduce their waste, and overall become more responsible in their operations. Given this context, experts claim that organisational human resources practices have immense ability to mould the behaviours of individuals. On the basis of w theory, we used a configuration of green human resources management, environmentally specific servant leadership, and psychological green climate to develop causal recipes for stimulating green creativity in hotel employees. Data were collected from 418 employees and analysed using an fsQCA to test the proposed model. Findings revealed that no single construct was sufficient to predict employees’ green creativity, but three causal recipes (i.e., green human respurces management, environmentally specific servant leadership, and psychological green climate) can be demonstrated to produce high green creativity. The study findings show that green human resources managment practices influence individual green creativity. It also indicated that environmentally specific servant leadership is a key driver of green creativity. Moreover, psychological green climate has a signifcant influence on green creativity. Our study has meaningful implications for hotel managers that can help them to develop new approaches and strategies to improve the employees’ green creativity by paying attention to green human resources managment practices, environmentally specific servant leadership, and psychological green climate.

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  • Mansour Alyahya & Meqbel Aliedan & Gomaa Agag & Ziad H. Abdelmoety, 2023. "The Antecedents of Hotels’ Green Creativity: The Role of Green HRM, Environmentally Specific Servant Leadership, and Psychological Green Climate," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(3), pages 1-18, February.
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