Green Lifestyle: A Tie between Green Human Resource Management Practices and Green Organizational Citizenship Behavior

Jianfeng Meng (), Majid Murad, Cai Li (), Ayesha Bakhtawar and Sheikh Farhan Ashraf
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Jianfeng Meng: School of Management, Langfang Normal University, Langfang 065000, China
Majid Murad: School of Management, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China
Cai Li: School of Management, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China
Ayesha Bakhtawar: Department of Business Administration, NUML University of Modern Languages, Islamabad 60000, Pakistan
Sheikh Farhan Ashraf: School of Management, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 15, issue 1, 1-19

Abstract: Increasingly negative business processes and climate change have prompted businesses to incorporate green lifestyle practices into their working systems as a promising first step. This study investigates the impact of green human resource management practices on green organizational citizenship behavior, with a green lifestyle acting as a mediator and green innovation and green shared value acting as moderators. The data were collected from 347 hotel industry employees in China, and the partial least squares structural equation modeling PLS-SEM technique was applied to verify the hypothesis relationships. The results show that green HRM practices positively and significantly impact green lifestyle and organizational citizenship behavior. Meanwhile, findings indicate that a green lifestyle positively mediates the relationship between green HRM practices and green organizational citizenship behavior. Furthermore, results show that green shared value significantly moderates the relationship between a green lifestyle and green organizational citizenship behavior. The moderating effect of green innovation is insignificant in the relationship between green HRM practices and green lifestyles. Finally, this article discusses the managerial implications and future insights. This study is useful for HR managers in the hotel industry to make the best possible strategic decisions and formulate the best possible strategies accordingly. Finally, this study provides insights for other practitioners and academics to better understand the concept of green lifestyles in order to improve green organizational citizenship behavior in their organizations.

Keywords: green HRM practices; green organizational citizenship behavior; green lifestyle; green innovation; green shared values; AMO theory; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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