Assessing the Impacts of Individual and Organizational Factors on South Korea Hotels’ Green Performance Using the AMO Model
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
1. When variables appear for the first time, please write the full name and indicate the abbreviation in parentheses. Do not write the abbreviation directly for the first time.
2. The introduction does not explain what theoretical gaps exist in previous studies. Please add this part to explain further why this research is carried out.
3. The part "2.2. The Link Between Green Human Resource Management, Green Awareness, Green Psychological Climate, and Green Organizational Citizenship Behavior " is not logically clear and seems to be piling up literature. Please modify and improve them.
4. The model involves individual and organizational levels. In principle, Cross-level Analysis should be used. Please correct or elaborate on the reasons why Cross-level analysis was not used.
5. The content of the "5.2. Theoretical Implications" part is too little without specifying in detail the differences between this study and previous research conclusions; please explain the Theoretical contribution of this study in more detail.
Author Response
Dear Editor and reviewers,
Thank you very much for reviewing our manuscript. We appreciate the opportunity you have afforded us to revise and resubmit. We found your suggestions to be thought-provoking and useful and have worked diligently to improve the manuscript as you suggested. Below, you will find our replies and responses to your constructive comments. Within the responses, red sections denote changes we made to the manuscript itself. Within the manuscript itself, changes are highlighted in red. We hope the changes made are satisfactory to you.
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Point 1: When variables appear for the first time, please write the full name and indicate the abbreviation in parentheses. Do not write the abbreviation directly for the first time.
Response 1: Thank you for your suggestions. I have corrected the part pointed out by the reviewer correctly.
Point 2: The introduction does not explain what theoretical gaps exist in previous studies. Please add this part to explain further why this research is carried out.
Response 2: Thank you for your suggestions. I have revised the part pointed out by the reviewer correctly.
Point 3: The part "2.2. The Link Between Green Human Resource Management, Green Awareness, Green Psychological Climate, and Green Organizational Citizenship Behavior " is not logically clear and seems to be piling up literature. Please modify and improve them.
Response 3: Thank you for your suggestions. I have revised the part pointed out by the reviewer correctly.
Point 4: The model involves individual and organizational levels. In principle, Cross-level Analysis should be used. Please correct or elaborate on the reasons why Cross-level analysis was not used.
Response 4: Thank you for your suggestions. It was judged that it was verified by discrimination validity and CFA to secure the reliability and validity of the overall study. However, if you want additional analysis, I will do additional analysis.
Point 5: The content of the "5.2. Theoretical Implications" part is too little without specifying in detail the differences between this study and previous research conclusions; please explain the Theoretical contribution of this study in more detail.
Response 5: Thank you for your suggestions. I have revised the part pointed out by the reviewer correctly.
Reviewer 2 Report
The paper seeks to assess the impact of human ressources on a firm's environmental performance. Data is drawn from a survey of nine global hotel chains in South Korea. It is found that properly fostering ability-motivation-opportunity across employees has a positive influence on green awareness, green CSR perception and green performance management.
Overall, I found the paper very unclear, which makes it hard to trust its results and grasp its specific contribution. The abstract makes little sense, as it is written. The various variables are not well-defined. Reverse causality seems pervasive in the hypotheses, but a straightforward discussion of this problem and how it is addressed is lacking. Results (in Table 2) are presdented in a strange way. Managerial implications (p. 10), finally, are few and trivial (take, for instance, the sentence "Hotel should improve their green climate and employees' awareness by performing strategic management.")
The following remarks are minor ones.
- What is green OCB exactly? It is mentioned in the first sentence of the abstract, then all over the place, without a clear definition.
- The "theoretical background" (section 2) contains more of a literature review than it conveys theory. For the latter, the author my find it useful to consider, for instance, the following recent article: Sinclair-Desgagné (2021), "Green Human Resource Management - A personnel economics perspective," Resource & Energy Economics 66, November issue.
- A picture (Figure 1?) should be presented next to the statements of the hypotheses.
- Table 2 is hardly a standard manner to present statistical estimates. Can you, by the way, write down precisely the structural model?
Author Response
Dear Editor and reviewers,
Thank you very much for reviewing our manuscript. We appreciate the opportunity you have afforded us to revise and resubmit. We found your suggestions to be thought-provoking and useful and have worked diligently to improve the manuscript as you suggested. Below, you will find our replies and responses to your constructive comments. Within the responses, red sections denote changes we made to the manuscript itself. Within the manuscript itself, changes are highlighted in red. We hope the changes made are satisfactory to you.
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Point 1: Overall, I found the paper very unclear, which makes it hard to trust its results and grasp its specific contribution. The abstract makes little sense, as it is written. The various variables are not well-defined. Reverse causality seems pervasive in the hypotheses, but a straightforward discussion of this problem and how it is addressed is lacking. Results (in Table 2) are presdented in a strange way. Managerial implications (p. 10), finally, are few and trivial (take, for instance, the sentence "Hotel should improve their green climate and employees' awareness by performing strategic management.")
Response 1: Thank you for your suggestions. I have revised and supplemented the parts that the reviewer pointed out correctly.
Point 2: What is green OCB exactly? It is mentioned in the first sentence of the abstract, then all over the place, without a clear definition.
Response 2: Thank you for your suggestions. In 1.Introduction and 2.theoretical background(2.3), I have revised the part pointed out by the reviewer correctly.
Point 3: The "theoretical background" (section 2) contains more of a literature review than it conveys theory. For the latter, the author my find it useful to consider, for instance, the following recent article: Sinclair-Desgagné (2021), "Green Human Resource Management - A personnel economics perspective," Resource & Energy Economics 66, November issue.
Response 3: Thank you for your suggestions. I fully agree with what the reviewer has pointed out, and I will try to review the research of Sinclair-Desgné (2021) provided in future studies and put it in the paper.
Point 4: A picture (Figure 1?) should be presented next to the statements of the hypotheses.
Response 4: Thank you for your suggestions. I have revised the part pointed out by the reviewer correctly.
Point 5: Table 2 is hardly a standard manner to present statistical estimates. Can you, by the way, write down precisely the structural model?
Response 5: Thank you for your suggestions. I agree with your point. However, many studies (Han et al., 2010; Khuong et al., 2020; Luu, 2018; Wong et al., 2021), etc. report the table of hypothesis testing results (not presenting s.e. and p-value value) of the structural equations presented in this study in the same or almost similar format. In addition, the same result value was presented in the study of this author that I contributed to the MDPI journal. And I would appreciate it if you could refer to this. Hence, I will revise and supplement it if I kindly ask you to give me more details about what the reviewers pointed out.
Han, H., Hsu, L. T. J., & Sheu, C. (2010). Application of the theory of planned behavior to green hotel choice: Testing the effect of environmental friendly activities. Tourism management, 31(3), 325-334.
Khuong, M., Mai, T., & Phuong, N. (2020). The impacts of human resource management practices on employees’ motivation and loyalty. Management Science Letters, 10(11), 2673-2682.
Luu, T. T. (2018). Building employees’ organizational citizenship behavior for the environment: The role of environmentally-specific servant leadership and a moderated mediation mechanism. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management.
Wong, A. K. F., Kim, S. S., Kim, J., & Han, H. (2021). How the COVID-19 pandemic affected hotel Employee stress: Employee perceptions of occupational stressors and their consequences. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 93, 102798.
Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
The author nicely supplemented the key contents of Theoretical differences, Literature gaps and Theoretical Implications, and responded to the doubts about whether to use cross-level analysis in the manuscript. Overall, the manuscript is of publishable quality, but author is advised to proofread the manuscript throughout for formatting and sentence, especially in the References section. The most obvious problem is whether journal initials are capitalized.
