Green human resource management in hotels: Awareness and implementation

Document Type : Original Article

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1 faculty of tourism and hotels, Suez Canal University

2 Hotel Studies Department, Faculty of Tourism and Hotels, University of Sadat City

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Because of climate change, global warming and depletion of natural non-renewal resources the business world has become in a growing need for activities that can preserve natural environment from hazardous effects, especially that customers became more aware about the importance of environmental conservation. In the management field, it is widely known that no plan can be done effectively without human resource awareness. Hence, all activities that aim at achieving environmental goals should include transforming employees into green. This research aims at shedding light on human resource managers' awareness of green HRM practices, besides, focusing on human resource management "HRM" green practices in five star hotels. A questionnaire was directed to 28 five star hotel human resource managers in Sharm-Elshiekh. The obtained data was analyzed statistically by "SPSS" 17.The research revealed that although hotels human resource managers are aware of green HRM they are not fully deploying green HRM practices at their departments. The research recommends involving green practices into human resource management policies in order to transform hotels employees to green.

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