IMPACT OF GREEN COMPENSATION ON EMPLOYEE INNOVATIVENESS AMONG FOOD RETAIL OUTLETS
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2023-09-01
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Summit University, Offa
Abstract
Background: Organisation prioritize sustainability has been top concern since
environmental legislation and social pressure had compel firms to adopt eco-friendly
policies and practices to effectively achieving their economic goal. However,
organizations that explore green initiative expect their employees to perceive
sustainability as a priority to increase innovatively through pro-sustainability. Based on
this perspective, this study aims to investigate the impact of green compensation on
employee innovativeness among food retail outlets in Nigeria.
Materials and Methods: A sample size of 220 employees was conveniently selected
from Shoprite and Edinwo Stores in Ilorin Metropolis to participate in the study, using
convenience sampling technique. Aquestionnaire with a Likert-Scale from 1-5 was used
to collect the data to determine green compensation influence on employee
innovativeness to attain company sustainability. To ensure reliability and validity of the
data set, the sample size only includes workers who are currently working with Shoprite
and Edinwo Stores. Multiple regression analysis shows that one out of two hypotheses
tested have significance relationship with employee innovativeness.
Results: The result shows clearly that green financial compensation motivate employee
interest to support company environmental practices. Surprisingly, further finding
revealed that green non-financial compensation has no significance impact on
employee innovativeness.
Conclusion: The study concluded that green compensation has significance impact on
employee innovativeness to achieve sustainability. It is recommended that firms/stores
should focus and concentrate on antecedents of green non-financial compensation and
should be institutes into food retail stores compensation scheme.