title: Greening the work force in Brazilian hotels: the role of environmental training.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Organizations are increasingly required to reduce their environmental impact through the adoption of environmental management, which requires the support of human resource practices.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The objective of this study is to determine whether human resource management practices, especially training, are supporting environmental management practices at four hotels located in Brazil.
  
  
  METHODS
  This research is qualitative, based on the analysis of four hotels in Brazil.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Based on the systematized empirical evidence collected from four hotels (Hotels A, B, C, and D), it can be concluded that: (1) human resource management is still not fully aligned with environmental objectives at the hotels studied; (2) only Hotel B has implemented environmental management practices and aligned with human resource management in a more developed manner, which may indicate that these two variables of analysis could have interrelations; (3) environmental training as a human resource management practice was verified in all hotels analyzed.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The greening of human resources practices is not fully aligned with environmental objectives in the hotels studied. If these hotels really wish to "go green," environmental training will be necessary. Hotel stakeholders play a major role in implementing the greening of the hotel industry.
authors.affiliation: Department of Administration, College of Economics, Business Administration and Accounting of the University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.
authors.forename: Fernanda
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Dias-Angelo
authors.affiliation: Department of Production Engineering, The Sao Paulo State University - UNESP, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
authors.forename: Charbel J C
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Jabbour
authors.affiliation: Department of Post Graduate Studies, Foundation Armando Alvares Penteado, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.
authors.forename: José Armando
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Calderaro
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D004782:Environmental Health / Q000193:education*; D006804:Ergonomics; D006798:Housing; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training; D010559:Personnel Management / Q000639:trends*; D036301:Qualitative Research; D017132:Workplace
keywords: Brazil; Green human resource management; environmental sustainability; hospitality industry; hotels; service industry; sustainable human resources; training