Green Creativity Research Articles

Bibliometric analysis and systematic review of green human resource management and hospitality employees' green creativity

PurposeThe study aims to work on two objectives, first to provide a theoretical foundation along with ongoing trend in the field of green human resource management (GHRM) and employee green creativity (EGC) in the hospitality and tourism industry. Second, the study also proposes a conceptual research model to understand the dynamics of the relationship between GHRM and EGC for future studies.Design/methodology/approachThe study uses multi-method approach, systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis is performed on published work on GHRM and EGC. This study initially shortlisted 52 publications from multiple databases, which was refined to 11 Scopus-indexed papers, which discussed both GHRM and EGC attributes in a hospitality context. VOSviewer and advance excel software's are being used to perform the analysis.FindingsThe systematic literature review concluded that very limited studies have been conducted on GHRM and EGC in the hospitality context and it has recently gained prominence during the covid pandemic. While bibliometric analysis also identified h-index authors with their co-authorship network, citations and keywords matrix and the changing trends in the domain of GHRM and EGC in hospitality and tourism industry. The analysis also highlights the individual and organisational factors influencing the relation between GHRM and EGC.Originality/valueThis study is the first to conduct a systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis on GHRM and EGC in hospitality and tourism sector. Moreover the paper also provides researchers with an in-depth summary of the available literature and a blue print for future studies on GHRM and EGC.

Influence of Spiritual Leadership on Green Creativity Mediated by Employee Environmental Commitment

In the recent era of globalization, organizations need to avoid it, and environmental destruction has become an enormous challenge, especially when organizations face problems of environmental degradation. Because of this, researchers have paid considerable attention to understanding key determinants of green creativity (GC), an emerging area in the fields of sustainability and organizational behavior. Supporting social learning theory, this study examines the effect of spiritual leadership on employees' green creativity through the mediating mechanism of employee environmental commitment (EEC). Rationally, this study follows a post-positivist device and thus implements a quantitative research design approach. Multilevel data was collected from 405 employees working in universities and hospitals in Pakistan. Multilevel path analysis is applied by using Mplus. Our research reveals that spiritual leadership (SL) has a statistically positive effect on employee environmental commitment, which ultimately increases green creativity (GC). This research offers several solutions to save energy by turning off extra lights, garbage, and recycling so that we can overcome the losses we face in our daily lives.

Exploring the Relationship between Green Human Resource Management and Green Creativity: The Moderating Influence of Green Behavioral Intention

The research's goal was to investigate how green human resource management promotes the growth of green creativity through the mediating role of individual green values and green psychological climate. Green behavioral intention work as a mediator in the connection between green human resource management and green creativity. Quantitative research was done in Pakistan to cover this issue. A questionnaire was used to collect the data from 450 respondents, including government officials, workers from the private sector, and firm leaders. The suggested framework for this research uses SPSS to generate statistical results such as demographics, reliability, descriptive statistics, and correlation. SmartPLS 4 was used to apply the SEM-Structured Equation Model approach to the provided framework. Green human resource management characteristics, individual green values, green psychological environment, green behavioral intention, and green creativity were shown to have a substantial positive correlation. Discussions and potential ramifications are presented after the conclusion of this paper.

Linking environmentally-specific empowering leadership to hotel employees' green creativity: understanding mechanisms and boundary conditions

PurposeDrawing on conservation of resources and social exchange theories, the authors build and test a theoretical model examining the association of environmentally-specific empowering leadership (ESEL) with green creativity as well as the mediating and moderating roles of green knowledge sharing behavior and green psychological climate, respectively, in this association.Design/methodology/approachData were collected in three different waves from 265 employees working in three-, four- and five-star hotels located in major cities in Pakistan. EFA, CFA and PROCESS macro were utilized to validate the study's research model and to examine the hypotheses.FindingsThe results indicated that ESEL is positively associated with green creativity, and green knowledge sharing behavior is an effective underlying mechanism between the ESEL–green creativity association. Furthermore, this study’s findings suggested that green psychological climate moderates the direct and indirect associations such that the associations were stronger when green psychological climate was more positive rather than less positive.Practical implicationsThe study provides important lessons to managers and policymakers about the benefits of ESEL to achieving green employee creativity within the hospitality sector and helps to contextualize the importance and relevance of addressing global challenges in light of the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).Originality/valueThe study is the first to explore the green adaptation of empowering leadership, its effects, mechanisms and boundary conditions.

Developing Green Innovations in the Wine Industry: An Applied Analysis.

Winemaking is an ancestral activity characterized by its strong roots in the culture, heritage, and people of the producing regions. In addition to providing important health benefits, wine is a product that is widely accepted by society. However, the socioeconomic context is evolving at a rapid pace, and new requirements and needs are forcing companies to innovate in order to remain competitive in the markets, especially in terms of sustainability. The main aim of this paper is to analyze the relationship between green transformational leadership and green innovation, as well as the mediating effect of green motivation and green creativity in this relationship. Data were obtained from a sample of 196 Spanish companies belonging to the wine industry and, as a method of analysis, was used partial least squares structural equation modeling PLS-SEM. The results show a positive and significant relationship between green transformational leadership and green innovation in wine companies. Furthermore, green motivation and green creativity exert a mediating effect in this relationship. It is concluded that the managers of wine companies should encourage employee motivation and creativity, especially in ecological terms, by creating an environment conducive to the development of environmentally friendly innovations.

Exploring the Impact of Sustainability Control Systems on Employees’ Green Creativity: The Mediating Role of Psychological Empowerment and Sustainability Learning Capabilities

This paper investigates how sustainability control systems (SCSs) drive employees’ green creativity (EGC) with the purpose of assisting organisations in the Sri Lankan manufacturing sector to improve their environmental sustainability performance. Managers and staff of manufacturing firms often lack awareness of environmental issues, which leads to unsustainable strategies. EGC has been identified as an important resource for devising sustainable strategies. SCSs drive employee behaviour and support EGC by fostering a creative workplace. Utilising Simons’ Levers of Controls (LoC) framework, a mediation model incorporating psychological empowerment (PE) and sustainability learning capabilities (SLCs) is tested to provide insights on how SCSs influence EGS. Survey data collected from 239 organisations in the Sri Lankan manufacturing sector were analysed using the PLS-SEM method. The results confirm the full mediating roles of PE and SLCs on the link between SCSs and EGC. This demonstrates the importance of empowering employees and enhancing their learning capabilities to encourage EGC. This study contributes to Simons’ LoC framework by incorporating sustainability dimensions into management control systems (MCSs), and extends the extant body of knowledge by providing a specific understanding of the mechanisms driving EGC through PE and SLCs.

Environmentally specific authentic leadership and team green creative behavior based on cognitive-affective path systems

PurposeThis study aims to investigate the role of environmentally specific authentic leadership (ESAL) and cognitive-affective path systems (team passion and goal clarity) in enhancing green creativity at the team level.Design/methodology/approachData were collected from hotel employees through a structured questionnaire.FindingsAccording to the investigation of 130 teams, ESAL influences team green creative behavior (TGCB), and this link was mediated by the team environmental goal clarity (TEGC). Furthermore, the study also finds a moderating role of team environmental harmonious passion (TEHP) between the hypothesized links. Based on these findings, the study discusses theoretical and practical implications.Practical implicationsHospitality organizations looking to encourage teams to participate in TGCB as a whole should make sure that leaders are able to express their true selves. Further, leaders should focus on developing team members’ environmental passion and awareness of their TGCB.Originality/valueTo the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study that summarizes the literature on ESAL, TEHP and TEGC in the new managerial framework of TGCB. The analysis also advances the creativity literature by further expanding green creativity research to the hotel/ tourism discipline and adding authentic leadership to the subtle body of predictors for green creativity at the team level.

The Antecedents of Hotels’ Green Creativity: The Role of Green HRM, Environmentally Specific Servant Leadership, and Psychological Green Climate

As a consequence of climate change, hotels are under mounting pressure to cut their carbon emissions, reduce their waste, and overall become more responsible in their operations. Given this context, experts claim that organisational human resources practices have immense ability to mould the behaviours of individuals. On the basis of w theory, we used a configuration of green human resources management, environmentally specific servant leadership, and psychological green climate to develop causal recipes for stimulating green creativity in hotel employees. Data were collected from 418 employees and analysed using an fsQCA to test the proposed model. Findings revealed that no single construct was sufficient to predict employees’ green creativity, but three causal recipes (i.e., green human respurces management, environmentally specific servant leadership, and psychological green climate) can be demonstrated to produce high green creativity. The study findings show that green human resources managment practices influence individual green creativity. It also indicated that environmentally specific servant leadership is a key driver of green creativity. Moreover, psychological green climate has a signifcant influence on green creativity. Our study has meaningful implications for hotel managers that can help them to develop new approaches and strategies to improve the employees’ green creativity by paying attention to green human resources managment practices, environmentally specific servant leadership, and psychological green climate.

Corporate environmental ethics and employee's green creativity? The perspective of environmental commitment

AbstractMany companies have become aware of the importance of green creativity for sustainable development in the face of an increasingly critical global environmental situation. As employee's green creativity serves as an important foundation for corporate green creativity, we divide green creativity at the employee level into green incremental and radical creativity and construct a theoretical framework to assess the effects of corporate environmental ethics on these two types of green creativity. We distribute 195 valid leader–employee matching questionnaires to a variety of companies in China. We find that corporate environmental ethics has a positive effect on both incremental and radical green creativity. Furthermore, we discover that employee environmental commitment partially mediates the association between corporate environmental ethics and the two types of green creativity identified above. Sustainable human resources management (HRM) plays a moderating role between corporate environmental ethics and environmental commitment and moderates the indirect effects of corporate environmental ethics on the two types of green creativity through the promotion of environmental commitment. These findings suggest that companies should improve their corporate environmental ethics and sustainable HRM to encourage employees to enhance their own environmental commitment and, in turn, increase their green incremental and radical creativity levels. Our study has significant implications for enhancing business innovation and achieving sustainable development. Finally, we also address the theoretical and practical implications of our findings.

Spiritual Leadership and Green Creativity: A Multilevel Analysis

The current research examines the influence of spiritual leadership on green creativity via the mediating mechanism of green knowledge-sharing by supporting social learning theory. Leaders with spiritual traits can create green knowledge sharing that leads to green employee creativity. Rationally, this research follows the mechanism of post-positivism. Therefore a quantitative methodology is applied. Time-delayed survey administration and deductive approach are applied for theory development. Multilevel data is collected from 405 employees working in Pakistani universities and hospitals. Multilevel pathway analysis is implemented by using Mplus. Our research established a statistically positive influence of spiritual leadership on green knowledge-sharing, which increases green creativity. Our study provides various practical and managerial consequences where organizations can intentionally emphasize and concentrate on employees' green creativity to save the environment through employees' implementation of green ideas.

Green creativity, responsible innovation, and product innovation performance: A study of entrepreneurial firms in an emerging economy

AbstractIn this article, we investigate the effect of green creativity on product innovation performance through the mediating mechanism of responsible innovation. Further, we explore the moderating impact of resource commitment on the relationship between green creativity and responsible innovation. Utilizing a sample of 273 entrepreneurial firms in Vietnam, we find that green creativity positively influences responsible innovation. In addition, the results demonstrate that the effect of green creativity on responsible innovation is moderated by a firm's level of resource commitment to environmental innovation, such that the effect is more pronounced when a firm commits more resources to environmental innovation. Finally, we find the effect of green creativity on product innovation performance is mediated by responsible innovation. The theoretical as well as practical implications of the findings are discussed.

The impact of environmentally-specific servant leadership on organizational green performance: The mediating role of green creativity.

Due to the increasingly prominent environmental problems caused by excessive carbon dioxide emissions, many countries have put forward higher requirements for the green development of enterprises. Therefore, how to improve the green performance of enterprises has become a hot issue. Based on the social learning perspective, we examine the impact of environmentally-specific servant leadership on organizational green performance and test the mediating role of green creativity and the moderating role of power distance orientation. We test the theoretical framework by means of a questionnaire survey with a research sample of employees and their leaders working in the eastern coastal region of China. The results of the study suggest that: environmentally-specific servant leadership has a positive influence on organizational green performance; green creativity plays a mediating role between environmentally-specific servant leadership and organizational green performance; power distance orientation plays a moderating role between environmentally-specific servant leadership and green creativity; specifically, the higher the power distance orientation, the more significant the influence of environmentally-specific servant leadership on employees' green creativity. This study enriches the research on environmentally-specific servant leadership and proposes a new perspective on how to improve green performance in organizations.

The Role of Environmental Monitoring in Promoting Green Creativity

Abstract The main objective of the research article is to demonstrate the role played by environmental monitoring in promoting green creativity by creating competitive new products, services, processes, procedures and systems designed to use natural resources at the lowest level and to provide a better quality of life. The research relied upon the independent variable, i.e., environmental monitoring including different dimensions such as the technical field and environmental accounting. On the other hand, the dependent variable is green creativity and has four dimensions (such as green creative motivation, green creative thinking, green creative behaviour and green creative outcome). For this study, the researchers selected a sample of auditors and accountants associated with some of the factories in Iraq-Karbala Governorate, and the sample size was 138. To attain the objective, the analytical descriptive approach was adopted which was leveraged to answer the main question: Are the heads of organisations aware of the role played by environmental monitoring in promoting green creativity? The research question was answered by testing four hypotheses and all of them were verified. The research found that there was a weakness in environmental monitoring and green creativity in a few aspects. It was represented by the weak environmental awareness of the employees and organisations towards green creativity and environmental sustainability. The organisations did not show any interest in adopting materials with less environmental harm. Therefore, it is necessary to review the environmental laws in Iraq and reformulate them to be stringent in applying the environmental monitoring laws and imposing fines.

THE PERCEPTION AND CONSUMER BEHAVIOR OF ORGANIC PRODUCTS IN SUPPORTING A SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENT

Environmental problems must be addressed properly, one of which is by producing and consuming organic products. Although it is currently impossible to meet the demand of organic products in the world, it can at least reduce environmental problems. Consumer knowledge of a sustainable environment is seen from the knowledge of green products, Green Finance, Green Living, Green Transportation, Green Producers, Green Consumers, Green Communication , Green Institutions and Green Creativity. The purpose of this study is to see the perception and consumer behavior of organic products in supporting a sustainable environment. The study was conducted in June – October 2022 with 183 respondents using simple random sampling. The consumer criteria are consumers who often buy from these three organic commodities in daily shopping patterns and the data is analyzed with Multidimensioan Scalling (MDS). The results showed that consumer perceptions of sustainable environmental trends say that organic vegetables and chickens have similarities, then rice and organic vegetables. While rice and organic chicken have no similarities. Consumer behavior that is oriented towards being environmentally friendly is revealed that consumers in buying organic rice consider many factors including green products, green producers, green communication, and green institutions. As for organic chicken factor green consumer, and green creativity. Furthermore, for organic vegetables, only green finance. Thus, consumers in buying organic rice consider many factors compared to buying organic chicken and vegetables. This indicates that knowledge of sustainable environment still needs to be conveyed to the community considering that rice is a staple food in Indonesia and also other countries in the world.

A Comprehensive Review of Green Human Resource Management and Future Research Avenues

There is emergent literature that shows the impacts that green human resource management (GHRM) has on individual outcomes, organizational outcomes, GHRM challenges, as well as drivers; but there is a scarcity of research avenues proposed to direct potential researchers in the GHRM field. For addressing this void in the literature, a literature review by following a systematic approach has been conducted of 87 papers on GHRM. The literature trends have been observed as examining the direct and indirect interrelationship between GHRM and performance through five GHRM aspects including green recruitment and selection, green training and development, green compensation and rewards, green employee involvement, and green performance management. Organizational performance dimensions include environmental, economic, social performance, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and green competitive advantage. Individual performance dimensions include green behavior, green creativity, and green innovation. This review has revealed seven thematic research gaps that should be focused on future GHRM research to make the field flourish and more mature. The originality of the paper lies in its unique nature of offering future research avenues.

Driving Eco-Innovation through Green Transformational Leadership: The Power of Employee Voluntary Green Behavior

Keeping in view the increasingly importance of environmental preservation, organizations tend to focus more and more on sustainable business practices. Accordingly, employees green practices such as eco-innovation can contribute significantly towards the preservation of the environment. Hence, it is very crucial to study how companies such as banking sector enhance employees green innovation or eco-innovation to solve environmental problem. For this purpose, the present study has examined the variables that might be the predictors of employees' eco-innovation. An important contributor to employee eco-innovation isgreen transformational leadership, which was the focus of this study. Moreover, this study verified the underlying mechanism that leads transformational leadership to employees' eco-innovation through the role of employees' voluntary green workplace behavior. Hypotheses were presented based on social identity and social exchange theory. Data were collected from 150 workers of private and public banks in the Hazara region by convenience sampling. Results confirmed the positive impact of Green Transformation Leaderships on EcoInnovation. Moreover, the findings also confirmed the significant mediating impact of EVGB between the links of Green Transformation Leaderships Eco-Innovation. These findings have important implications for both academics and bank management like, to strengthen their green creativity, using green transformational leadership to establish a green corporate identity would need a large commitment of resources. If the organization wishes to drive employee eco-innovation, it must connect the concept of green transformational leadership to its long-term development sustainability. When individuals embrace voluntary green workplace behaviors, eco-innovation rises.

Influence of green creativity on organizations: A case study from the perspectives of leaders and subordinates

The sustainability framework has a strong influence on the policies, practices and procedures of companies. Green creativity plays a pivotal role in the development of initiatives and innovations for the environmental pillar of sustainability. Based on a survey applied to a Portuguese company with an accredited environmental management system (N = 146), the findings reveal that green creativity is influenced in different ways when analysed from distinct perspectives. The leader's green creativity is positively influenced by the subordinate's green self‐efficacy and personal identification with the leader, whereas the subordinate's green creativity is positively influenced by their green passion and green self‐efficacy, and the leaders' green creativity. This study shows that green creativity develops differentially according to distinct job positions and expectations that in practice must be complementary and synergistic for its effective development.

THE IMPACT OF ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION & ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT ON GREEN PRODUCT INNOVATION PERFORMANCE IN THE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY OF PAKISTAN WITH THE HELP OF MEDIATING ROLE OF GREEN CREATIVITY CLIMATE

The purpose of this paper, exploring the impact of success factors of EIP dimensions (i.e. Environmental Management, Creativity Climate, Green Creativity, Green Product Innovation Performance) & their impact on the organizational performance of Manufacturers in Pakistan on various leveled execution (i.e. environmental performance, economic performance, & operational performance, whereas EIP practices in developing countries like Pakistan needs to explore. The Data of this research were collected from the managers of 185 business firms in Pakistan through survey questionnaires with a purposive sampling technique. The target population consisted of managerial employees (business experts & executives) from private business firms & it was subjected to PLS-SEM for analysis. Our findings show that Manufacturing organizations can find consumers with low-quality environmental requirements having a low motivation to buy products. The most important element of an organization that promotes the establishment of a green factory product, contributes to the organizational innovation theory.

Examining the green factors affecting environmental performance in small and medium-sized enterprises: A mediating essence of green creativity.

Despite a large amount of literature on the management and sustainability of green enterprises, representatives' contributions to environmental challenges have received scant attention. This study purposefully assesses how managers' ecological expertise and ability to transform organizations' leadership practices into more environmentally friendly ones, with the help of green creativity (GC) as a mediating factor. The study utilizes partial least square structural equation modeling to examine the perceptions of 400 respondents in various leadership roles in the small and medium businesses industry. The study's findings point to the beneficial impacts of green knowledge (GK), green transformational leadership (GTL), and GC on environmental performance (EP). GC also appears to perform a meaningful mediating role in the links between GK and EP, GTL, and EP. The primary takeaway from recent research is that participants in the sector may be able to respond with green efforts that are specific to their businesses with the support of managers' environmental concerns. There is a discussion on practice recommendations and future directions.

How authentic leadership affects green creativity: the role of self-reflection and psychological capital

PurposeBased on social cognitive theory, this study aims to explore the effect of authentic leadership on employee green creativity by studying the mediating role of reflection and rumination and the moderating role of psychological capital.Design/methodology/approachThis study used experience sampling methodology to test hypothesis. Specifically, this study applied two-level path analysis to analyze 1,290 observations from 129 employees.FindingsThe results show that authentic leadership positively influences reflection but negatively influences rumination, which in turn impact employees’ green creativity. Psychological capital positively moderates the effects of authentic leadership on reflection and negatively moderates the effects of authentic leadership on rumination. Furthermore, psychological capital moderates the linkages between authentic leadership, self-reflection and employee green creativity.Practical implicationsOrganizations should make efforts in promoting authentic leadership and recruiting employees who possess high psychological capital. Moreover, managers can make effective efforts to stimulate employees’ reflection and mitigate rumination, thereby facilitating organizational sustainable development.Originality/valueIn investigating green issues related to employees’ daily cognitive processes, this study focuses on within-personal reaction mechanism to authentic leadership, concerning the moderating effect of individual psychological capital.