Special Issue "Sustainable Human Resource Management and Marketing Studies in the Service Industry"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 December 2021.

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Huseyin Arasli
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Faculty of Social Sciences, Norwegian School of Hotel Management, The University of Stavanger, 4036 Stavanger, Norway
Interests: leadership; human resources management; service quality; organizational behavior; strategic management
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Prof. Dr. Trude Furunes
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Faculty of Social Sciences, Norwegian School of Hotel Management, University of Stavanger, 4036 Stavanger, Norway
Interests: leadership; health-promoting leadership; age discrimination; ageing; diversity
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Dr. Hasan Evrim Arici
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EU Business School, European University, 80339 Munich, Germany
Interests: tourism; hospitality; HRM; leadership
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Sustainability is considered as an important factor affecting the success of management and marketing activities in the service industry. Scholars have suggested that sustainability in marketing may have a significant effect on sustained competitive advantage. However, research on the phenomenon is still deficient, and important study problems still need to be solved and gaps still need to be filled. In addition, motivating and keeping competent human resources for a long time is another important challenge for practitioners in the industry. Therefore, research is being undertaken to develop sustainable human resources needs to provide several avenues for both researchers and practitioners. This Special Issue aims to bring together state-of-the art research on sustainable HR management and marketing to examine the further avenues for scholars and industry practitioners in the service industry.

We particularly welcome investigations focusing on the service industry that include (though not exclusively) the following issues:

Crises, sustainability, and management  in the service industry;

HR management and sustainability;

Green leadership and HR management;

Sustainable HR and employee innovation;

Sustainable HR and employee job outcomes;

Measuring HR effectiveness;

The importance of HR functions on employee attitudes and behaviors;

Socially responsible HR practices;

Leadership and HR management in academia;

Contemporary leadership approaches.

Prof. Dr. Huseyin Arasli
Prof. Dr. Trude Furunes
Dr. Hasan Evrim Arici
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • leadership
  • human resource management
  • sustainability

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The Effects of Transformational Leadership on Organizational Performance: Testing the Mediating Effects of Knowledge Management
Sustainability 2021, 13(14), 7981; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13147981 - 16 Jul 2021
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Transformational leadership is a sustainable and exemplary form of leadership that liberates subordinates’ ideas, enables subordinates to view problems from a different perspective, helps adaptation to changing environments, and increases Human Resources Management effectiveness in public and service institutions. The effects of transformational [...] Read more.
Transformational leadership is a sustainable and exemplary form of leadership that liberates subordinates’ ideas, enables subordinates to view problems from a different perspective, helps adaptation to changing environments, and increases Human Resources Management effectiveness in public and service institutions. The effects of transformational leadership on organizational performance by means of knowledge management have been examined in this study on the northern Cyprus Security Forces. In addition, the study aims to analyze the relationships between transformational leadership, knowledge management, organizational performance, job satisfaction, organizational learning, and knowledge creation processes. The questionnaire was conducted in three different periods using a time-lag method, and data were collected from 1229 employees for this study. The collected data were analyzed using structural equation modeling (Lisrel 8.54). The findings of the research include 17 hypotheses that were supported, and 1 hypothesis that was not. In addition, it was determined that organizational learning, knowledge management, and job satisfaction mediate the effect of transformational leadership on organizational performance. Full article
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