Restraints and Enablers of Green initiative-taking among hospitality employees: a mixed-methods approach

Green initiative-taking, an employee’s self-starting opportunity-seeking action to improve environmental performance is a desirable outcome of organizations’ green policies. Given prior inattention to this area of study, it is unclear what fosters green initiative-taking, and why. This study attempts to answer these questions using a mixed-methods approach. First, an exploratory qualitative study was conducted. Green human resource management, eco-silence, supervisor bottom-line mentality, and co-worker voice emerged as the major themes of employees’ experiences when seeking to engage in green initiative-taking. Second, building on social information processing and social learning theories, a quantitative study proposes a conceptual model of the inter-relationships between the themes that emerged from the first study. Results from a multinational multisource time-lagged quantitative study support most of the hypotheses and shed light on avenues for future research. It suggests that supervisor bottom-line mentality inhibiting green initiative-taking might be standard procedure bottom-line mentality rather than profit bottom-line mentality. Post-hoc, to enhance the study’s applicability, a fuzzy-set analysis was conducted to offer managers the configurations that best yield green initiative-taking among hospitality employees.

Citation

Ikhide, J. E., Ogunmokun, O. A., & Chen, T. (2024). Restraints and enablers of green initiative-taking among hospitality employees: A mixed-methods approach, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 32(6), 1096-1117. https://doi.org/10.1080/09669582.2023.2201411

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Journal

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/10034/627737

DOI

10.1080/09669582.2023.2201411

Type

Article

Description

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Sustainable Tourism on 19/04/2023, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09669582.2023.2201411

ISSN

0966-9582

EISSN

1747-7646

Additional Links

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09669582.2023.2201411