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A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Management".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 11992

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Dr. Mohammed Aboramadan

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School of Economics, Administration, and Public Policy, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Doha 200592, Qatar
Interests: leadership; HRM; pro-environmental practices; work-related behaviors; service-based sectors
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Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue will focus on topics in the area of pro-environmental management practices in service-based sectors such as higher education, hotels, banks, NPOs, etc. Researchers around the world in the field of service management are currently paying significant attention to the following research topics: green human resources management, green leadership, green work-related outcomes, green performance, and sustainability practices. The current challenges of meeting green demands generate implications for the service-based sector to adopt a green mindset among policymakers and employees alike. Green management practices in service-based sectors have been shown to generate positive outcomes at both the individual and organizational levels. For instance, green human resources management has been demonstrated to enhance eco-friendly behavior in hospitality, environmental performance in higher education, and green work-related outcomes in nonprofit organizations. Increasing attention has also been paid to pro-environmental leadership practices in service sectors such as green servant leadership, green inclusive leadership, and green transformational leadership. All the above-mentioned green leadership practices have been shown to affect green outcomes such as green innovative work behavior, green creativity, and organizational citizenship toward the environment. Therefore, this Special Issue proposes to develop insights by paying attention to empirical and theoretical contributions in green management practices in service-based sectors. This Special Issue proposes to develop existing insights in a different direction by directing attention towards contemporary empirical and theoretical contributions in green management practices, which may be used to help to meet ecological demands. Hence, the Special Issue welcomes original research and theory development papers as potentially appropriate studies for this Special Issue.

Some research questions that might be addressed in this Special Issue include (but are not limited to):

What are the underlying mechanisms that govern the links between green management practices (e.g., GHRM, green leadership, green finance, etc.) and green organizational and individual outcomes?
What role does organizational culture play in generating positive green outcomes?
Is the effect of green management practices limited to green outcomes?
What challenges do service-based sectors face while implementing green management practices?
Does top management ecological commitment matter?
What is the role of the green organizational climate in the relationship between green management practices and their outcomes?
What are the antecedents of the successful implementation of green management practices?

Dr. Mohammed Aboramadan
Guest Editor

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Keywords

green human resource practices
green leadership
sustainability practices
green work-related outcomes
green performance
green innovation
green finance
green hotels
green higher education
green hospitals
green banks

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Measuring Green Practices in Sport: Development and Validation of a Scale

by Guillermo Morán-Gámez, Antonio Fernández-Martínez, Rui Biscaia and Román Nuviala

Sustainability 2024, 16(2), 494; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16020494 - 5 Jan 2024

Cited by 2 | Viewed by 1375

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Environmental sustainability has often been associated with increased organizational profitability, efficiency, and competitiveness. A related example is green practices which have become a central component of many companies’ marketing strategies and day-to-day management. The current study aims to develop and validate a scale for use in sport organizations and activities. An item bank derived from past literature was prepared, which was then assessed by a group of experts and pilot-tested. Two waves of data collection were then collected (N = 1165 and N = 567). An exploratory factor analysis was performed with the data from wave 1, and a one-dimensional solution was presented. Then, a confirmatory factor analysis followed by a multigroup analysis was performed with the data from wave 2. The results confirmed the six-item one-dimensional scale with high levels of reliability and validity and optimal fit indices. The scale is important to green practices adopted by sport organizations regarding the customer–organization relationship. Full article

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The Crucial Role of Green Soft Skills and Leadership for Sustainability: A Case Study of an Italian Small and Medium Enterprise Operating in the Food Sector

by Caterina Farao, Chiara Bernuzzi and Chiara Ronchetti

Sustainability 2023, 15(22), 15841; https://doi.org/10.3390/su152215841 - 10 Nov 2023

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Increasing concerns about the human impact on the environment are leading to new challenges for companies and their employees. Specifically, the food industry is facing the need to provide sustainable services, requiring a specialized and skilled workforce. This article presents a case study of an Italian sustainable Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) operating in the food sector in order to determine the drivers of working for this company, the key skills needed, and the Green Human Resource Management practices adopted. A total of 13 semi-structured interviews were conducted with employees and thematically analyzed. The findings showed that soft skills were perceived as more relevant than hard skills, although the food sector is characterized by high technical complexity and subjected to several national and international regulations. Moreover, the crucial role of organizational culture in determining the relevance of soft skills within the company and in fostering the implementation of the holacracy organizational management method emerged. Finally, by detecting the relevance recognized to values and soft skills during the recruitment and selection process, our findings provided some evidence of Green Human Resource Management in sustainable SMEs. Full article

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An Empirical Study on Higher Education C-ESG Sustainable Development Strategy in Lower-Birth-Rate Era

by Yung-Kuan Chan and Ming-Yuan Hsieh

Sustainability 2022, 14(19), 12629; https://doi.org/10.3390/su141912629 - 4 Oct 2022

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Taking a succession of severe carbon emission issues and surprisingly lower birth rates into account, this empirical research employed the social exchange theory (SET) and environmental, social and governance (ESG) sustainable development doctrine in the decisive processes of the decision theory (DT) in order to comprehensively and deeply discuss and evaluate the interplays and dependences among the contemporary environmental carbon emission issue (social facts—SET), the carbon emission reduction public identity (social behavior—SET) and the higher education sustainable governance (social definition—SET). Beyond a succession of complex assessments, the most contributive and empirical benefits were (1) the registering decision-making of a higher education student was directly influenced by the carbon emission reduction governance concurrence (CERGC) of the carbon emission reduction energy recycling facilities (CERERFs) in higher education institutions; (2) the carbon emission reduction governance concurrence (CERGC) of the carbon emission reduction energy recycling facilities (CERERFs) was also indirectly advanced by offering a series of carbon emission reduction professional trainings (CERPTs), relative courses (CERRCs) and international certifications (CERICs) as well as precipitating an important part of the carbon emission reduction region–university collaboration (CERRUC) and alignment with non-profit organizations (CERANO). Hence, the higher education C-ESG sustainable development strategies are going to comprehensively establish a series of systematic carbon emission reduction professional trainings, relative courses, international certification mechanisms, region–university collaborations (CERRUCs) and alignments with non-profit organizations to concretely develop emission reduction energy recycling facilities (CERERFs) in order to increase student registrations to survive in this lower-birth-rate era. Full article

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Imperatives, Benefits, and Initiatives of Green Human Resource Management (GHRM): A Systematic Literature Review

by Fatimah Mahdy, Mohammad Alqahtani and Faiz Binzafrah

Sustainability 2023, 15(6), 4866; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15064866 - 9 Mar 2023

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This scientific paper focuses on in-depth knowledge of the concept of green human resource management in the field of management and business. For this purpose, the authors have used a systematic literature review to study the scientific research papers published in Google Scholar. The research results led to the appearance of 925 scientific articles from 2006 to 2022. By relying on many of the criteria that were identified, only 131 articles were chosen that are the most valuable and related to the management of green human resource management in the field of management and business, which intends to determine the impact of the application of green human resource management practices on organizations and to know the primary benefits, mechanisms and implementation procedures. The current study reached several conclusions, among which green human resource management practices is the best way to survive and preserve organizations, considering the concerns of protecting the global environment. A proposed theoretical model has been reached that shows the consequences of all green human resource management practices on the work of organizations and the added values achieved by their application. Full article

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