Leadership and Sustainable Human Resource Management in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry

Dear Colleagues,

Leadership is considered as an important factor affecting organizational success in the hospitality and tourism industry. Scholars have suggested that leadership may have a significant effect on employee satisfaction, service quality, employee innovation, creativity, productivity, and sustainable competitive advantage. However, research on leadership in hospitality and tourism is still deficient, and important study problems 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 on sustainable human resources needs to be developed to provide several avenues for both researchers and practitioners. This Special Issue aims to bring together state-of-the art research on leadership and sustainable HR and to examine the further avenues for scholars and industry practitioners in the tourism and hospitality industry.

We particularly welcome investigations focusing on the tourism and hospitality which include (though not exclusively) the following issues:

• Leadership in the tourism and hospitality industry;
• Leadership and sustainability;
• HR management and sustainability;
• Green Leadership and HR management;
• Leadership and employee innovation;
• Leadership and employee job outcomes;
• Measuring leadership effectiveness;
• The importance of HR functions on employee attitudes and behaviors;
• Socially responsible HR practices;
• The relations of Leadership and HR functions;
• Leadership and HR management in hospitality and tourism academia;
• Contemporary leadership approaches.

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• leadership
• human resource management
• sustainability
• tourism and hospitality