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Linking Green Human Resource Practices and Sustainable Performance: The Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction and Green Motivation

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In plain language

An investigation of the Egyptian hotel sector explores how green human resource practices influence sustainable performance through employee job satisfaction and green motivation. Survey data gathered from 333 personnel across 18 four- and five-star hotels in Greater Cairo were evaluated using structural equation modelling. The analysis reveals that adopting green human resource management has a positive effect on employee job satisfaction. Furthermore, both job satisfaction and green motivation contribute significantly to achieving sustainable organisational performance. The evidence also indicates that job satisfaction operates as both a partial and full mediator connecting sustainable workplace practices to overall sustainable performance. Aligning operational environmental initiatives with workforce management allows hospitality establishments to strengthen employee satisfaction while advancing their sustainability outcomes.

Key takeaways

  • Green human resource practices exert a positive influence on employee job satisfaction in luxury hotels.
  • Both job satisfaction and green motivation contribute significantly to sustainable organisational performance.
  • Job satisfaction serves as a mediator connecting sustainable human resource practices to sustainable performance.
  • The analysis was established using survey data from 333 employees across 18 hotels in Greater Cairo.

Why it matters

Hospitality businesses seeking to improve sustainability can benefit from aligning workforce policies with environmental goals. Demonstrating that green human resource practices foster employee satisfaction and motivation indicates that staff welfare and ecological targets are mutually supportive. This provides organisations with clear reasons to integrate green criteria into personnel management to drive overall operational sustainability.

Commercialisation angle

The insights apply directly to human resource managers, sustainability directors, and operations executives in the hotel sector. As an applied and tested organisational study, the research offers a ready framework that hospitality companies can use immediately to design green recruitment, training, and incentive programmes aimed at lifting employee morale and meeting sustainable performance targets.

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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of job satisfaction and green motivation as mediators of green human resource practices and sustainable performance in the hotel industry. In order to collect information in a quantifiable manner, a questionnaire was issued to the employees of Egypt’s five- and four-star hotels. Perspectives of 333 employees working at 18 five- and four-star hotels out of forty-four hotels located in Greater Cairo were analyzed using the partial least squares structural equation model (PLS-SEM). The results supported the model’s validity and demonstrated that green human resource practices had a beneficial effect on job satisfaction. In addition, the results suggested that job satisfaction and “green motivation” significantly contributed to sustainable performance. In addition, the results demonstrated that work satisfaction acted as a partial and full mediator between the variables of sustainable human resource practices and sustainable performance. The ramifications of theory and management are examined.

Research topics

  • Environmental Sustainability in Business
  • Environmental Education and Sustainability
  • Sustainable Supply Chain Management

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DOI: 10.3390/su15064835

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