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: Received: 17 August 2016 / Approved: 18 August 2016 / Online: 18 August 2016 (05:12:57 CEST)
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Chen, C. Building Green Hotel, by Employee’s Green Awareness, Knowledge and Skill. Preprints2016, 2016080167. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201608.0167.v1.
Chen, C. Building Green Hotel, by Employee’s Green Awareness, Knowledge and Skill. Preprints 2016, 2016080167. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201608.0167.v1.
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Chen, C. Building Green Hotel, by Employee’s Green Awareness, Knowledge and Skill. Preprints2016, 2016080167. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201608.0167.v1.
Chen, C. Building Green Hotel, by Employee’s Green Awareness, Knowledge and Skill. Preprints 2016, 2016080167. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201608.0167.v1.
Abstract
There has been a growing awareness of the need to implement environmentally friendly operations in the hotel industry, but most studies focus on guest behaviors. Only a few studies investigate employees’ willingness to comply with hotels’ green practices. This study seeks to further the investigation from the human resource perspective. Using alumni from a tourism and hospitality programs, this study collected 233 responses. The study hypothesizes that the employees’ green ability consisting of environmental awareness, environmental knowledge, and environmental skill creates a positive impact on hotels’ green ability. The results indicate that employees contribute approximately a fifth of hotels’ ability to implement greener practices.
Keywords
green hotel; environmental awareness; environmental knowledge
Subject
SOCIAL SCIENCES, Organizational Economics & Management
Copyright:
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
