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ABSTRACT
Given the numerous environmental issues facing the hotel industry, there is growing pressure to respond to them by implementing sustainable strategies such as green human resource management (HRM) practices. Thus, there is a need to examine how green HRM enhances environmental performance. Accordingly, this study explores the causal relationship between green HRM, employees’ pro-environmental performance (P-EP), environmental awareness, and servant leadership. The data were collected from employees working in hotels in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Smart PLS was utilized to conduct validity and reliability tests and to design structural equation modeling. The findings show that environmental awareness mediates the impacts of green HRM on proactive PEP, but does not support task-related P-EP. Also, servant leadership does not moderate the relationship between green HRM and task-related. Drawing on social exchange, social cognitive, and social learning theory, this study provides theoretical contributions, practical implications, and useful recommendations for managers and scholars in the hospitality industry.
Introduction
Almost a century and a half of global industrial development has created significant environmental problems in many countries (Watson & Tidd, 2018). For example, activities conducted within the tourism industry lead to environmental problems such as climate change; loss of natural resources; the emission of various environmental pollutants that impact the air and water, as well as the emission of sound and light pollution; and even species extinction. These industrial processes and their destructive effects threaten the global environment, as well as economic and social well-being.