Abstract
Growing awareness of environmental sustainability in the hospitality sector has made employee green innovative behavior an important element of their establishment's performance. Drawing from ego depletion theory, this paper aims to study how and when exploitative leadership influences hospitality employees’ green innovative behavior. We collected data from 467 full-time hospitality employees and their direct leaders in 96 teams, and examined a cross-level moderated mediation model employing multilevel path analysis. The results showed that exploitative leadership in the hospitality sector negatively associates with hospitality employees’ green innovative behavior, mediated by their emotional exhaustion. The results further showed that perceived organizational support moderates the influence of exploitative leadership on emotional exhaustion and subsequent green innovative behavior. Implications for theory and practice in the hospitality sector are discussed.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 103058 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | International Journal of Hospitality Management |
Volume | 99 |
Early online date | 04 Sept 2021 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 01 Oct 2021 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Emotional exhaustion
- Exploitative leadership
- Green innovative behavior
- Perceived organizational support
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management
- Strategy and Management