Notwithstanding the significant contribution made by employees towards addressing environmental issues, few research studies have explored this important contemporary theme in the hospitality sector. Drawing on the theory of planned behavior (TPB), this research examines the direct and interactive effects of employee environmental job attitudes and behaviors on ecological practices. Using PROCESS Macros on an actual convenient sample of 508 employees working in the hospitality industry, the results show a mixture of anticipated and surprising outcomes. The anticipated outcome is associated with the direct effects of environmental attitude on ecological behavior, while surprising outcomes are in the interaction of job attitudes and behavior (customer-oriented discretionary behavior, organizational commitment). These outcomes provoke employees’ green behavior and contentment with the organization. The originality of this research is to investigate the significant contribution of employees in greening the hospitality sector in an emerging economy.

Masstige is a new marketing trend that emerged from democratizing luxury brands to the middle class. And in this era of democratization, individuals are consuming luxury not only to get social distinction but also to offer consumers personal experience and a sense of self-indulgence through its high-quality, premium price, and social reputation. As a way of self-indulgence, consumers self-gift themselves with affordable luxury. This study explores the role of consumers’ self-gift behavior involved in the intention to consume masstige smartphone brands. This study identifies the motives of self-gift that affect masstige brand consumption. This study also explores the moderating role of self-esteem and ideal social self as the moderator in the relationship between self-gift and masstige consumption. Using the masstige mean index, this study also identifies the masstige brands in the smartphone industry of Pakistan. A self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data from 560 smartphone users in Pakistan. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used for data analysis. The results indicate that all dimensions of self-gift behavior used in this study positively affect masstige consumption. At the same time, self-esteem and ideal-social-self moderate the relationship between self-esteem and masstige consumption. The findings of this study contribute to masstige literature on the impact of self-gift behavior on masstige brand consumption.

Apophasis is a rhetoric device aimed at serving different purposes from the relationship between the speaker and the addressee to the mysticism. The understanding of this relationship may be direct and indirect. Keats’ Ode to a Nightingale and Shelley’s To a Skylark have never been explored from apophasis approach. The established notion of negative capability known as escapism from this world to the world of the song of nightingale as a distinctive feature of Keats poetry is challenged and replaced with the pure experience in this paper. This challenge is going to initiate a debate in future research. This paper also discusses the fact that despite similarity of experience in Keats’ Ode to a Nightingale and Shelley’s To a Skylark, the researchers and critics do not associate Shelley’s To a Skylark to escapism. The apophasis approach is useful in drawing this similarity and develop an understanding of romanticism from the two song specific poems of these romantic poets.

Accomplishment of goal levels in multi team systems: Role of leadership skills and multicultural teams

Teams are increasingly engaged in networked interaction across teams and organizational boundaries in order to achieve complex, lower order and higher order goals. Considering the fact that the goals accomplishment is the basic necessity of organizations, this study aims at exploring the accomplishment of goal levels in multi team systems (MTSs). There exists an absence of theoretical models focused on systems composed of such teams. This study therefore, proposes a predictive model to improve understanding in this regard. It has been suggested that the higher order goals are more effective to accomplish under sequential and reciprocal functional process inter dependencies. Conversely, the lower order goals are more effective to accomplish under intensive functional process inter dependency. However, this goal achievement requires facilitators to make it more effective because of which moderators such as leadership skills and multicultural teams are proposed within the suggested framework.