Growing awareness of environmental sustainability in the hospitality sector has made employee green innovative behavior an important element of their establishment’s performance. Drawing from ego depletion theory, this paper aims to study how and when exploitative leadership influences hospitality employees’ green innovative behavior. We collected data from 467 full-time hospitality employees and their direct leaders in 96 teams, and examined a cross-level moderated mediation model employing multilevel path analysis. The results showed that exploitative leadership in the hospitality sector negatively associates with hospitality employees’ green innovative behavior, mediated by their emotional exhaustion. The results further showed that perceived organizational support moderates the influence of exploitative leadership on emotional exhaustion and subsequent green innovative behavior. Implications for theory and practice in the hospitality sector are discussed.

酒店业日益增长的环境可持续性意识使员工的绿色创新行为成为其企业绩效的重要因素。借鉴自我耗竭理论，本文旨在研究剥削性领导如何以及何时影响酒店员工的绿色创新行为。我们收集了来自 96 个团队的 467 名全职酒店员工及其直接领导的数据，并检查了采用多级路径分析的跨级调解模型。结果表明，酒店业的剥削性领导与酒店员工的绿色创新行为呈负相关，并以情绪耗竭为中介。结果进一步表明，感知到的组织支持可以调节剥削性领导对情绪耗竭和随后的绿色创新行为的影响。讨论了对酒店业理论和实践的影响。