The Interaction between Personal and Company Environmental Values and Their Influence on Pro-Environmental Behaviours in Hospitality Sector Workplace: A Case Study of An International Hotel Company
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description: Most international hotel companies have adopted initiatives to reduce their impacts on the environment. When seeking to deliver against these, most depend on a combination of resource reduction technologies and initiatives designed to change employee behaviours. For many, the latter is particularly challenging and thus there is a growing interest in pro-environmental behaviours. Thus, this has become an increasingly important topic for academics and practitioners in the hospitality sector. Over recent years, theoretical pro-environmental behaviour models have been tested in domestic, public and workplace settings, although in practice few of these have focused on hospitality workplaces. The limited focus on pro-environmental behaviour in hospitality workplace settings means that many areas of application of pro-environmental behaviour remain under-researched; in particular, the role of values (for example, personal environmental values in the personal sphere, and company environmental values in the corporate sphere) and their influence on pro-environmental behaviours. Furthermore, none of the current models that have been tested in hospitality sector workplaces incorporated real-life working environments where the actual behaviours of employees are accounted for. Thus, there is a need for existing pro-environmental behaviour models to be adapted for application in real hospitality workplaces. This study evaluated the interaction between personal and company environmental values, and their influence on the pro-environmental behaviours of employees in the environment of an international hotel company. It also explored a framework that supports the adaptation of the current pro-environmental behaviour framework that is applicable for real-world hospitality workplaces and makes practical recommendations on how to engage employees in positive pro-environmental behaviours. In particular, the study investigated levels of employee engagement in energy efficiency via investi…
abstract: Most international hotel companies have adopted initiatives to reduce their impacts on the environment. When seeking to deliver against these, most depend on a combination of resource reduction technologies and initiatives designed to change employee behaviours. For many, the latter is particularly challenging and thus there is a growing interest in pro-environmental behaviours. Thus, this has become an increasingly important topic for academics and practitioners in the hospitality sector. Over recent years, theoretical pro-environmental behaviour models have been tested in domestic, public and workplace settings, although in practice few of these have focused on hospitality workplaces. The limited focus on pro-environmental behaviour in hospitality workplace settings means that many areas of application of pro-environmental behaviour remain under-researched; in particular, the role of values (for example, personal environmental values in the personal sphere, and company environmental values in the corporate sphere) and their influence on pro-environmental behaviours. Furthermore, none of the current models that have been tested in hospitality sector workplaces incorporated real-life working environments where the actual behaviours of employees are accounted for. Thus, there is a need for existing pro-environmental behaviour models to be adapted for application in real hospitality workplaces. This study evaluated the interaction between personal and company environmental values, and their influence on the pro-environmental behaviours of employees in the environment of an international hotel company. It also explored a framework that supports the adaptation of the current pro-environmental behaviour framework that is applicable for real-world hospitality workplaces and makes practical recommendations on how to engage employees in positive pro-environmental behaviours. In particular, the study investigated levels of employee engagement in energy efficiency via investi…
author: Nguyen, Thi Van
language: en
date published: 2022
date modified: 2026-07-24T03:43:01Z
provider: Oxford Brookes University
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: Oxford Brookes University

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value: 10.24384/ef25-nj50