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This paper examines the influence of empowerment on job satisfaction in five-star hotels in Jordan. The influence of empowerment on job satisfaction remains a relatively unexplored area. A 52-item questionnaire, measuring empowerment and job satisfaction, was distributed to 332 employees in 12 five-star hotels in Jordan with a 56% response rate. Principal components analysis determined the factor structure and regression analysis determined the influence of empowerment on job satisfaction. The results revealed both structural and psychological empowerment have significant individual influences on job satisfaction, but more significant when structural and psychological empowerment are combined. Most of previous studies were conducted in western economies and little in the Middle East generally and Jordan in particular. This research contributes to the literature by including both dimensions of empowerment where previous scholars used only one.

It has been established that food handlers working in foodservices are the main source of food borne outbreaks. The current study objective is to assess restaurant employees' food handling practices by exploring driving forces behind these practices. The study was accomplished quantitatively covering 245 restaurant employees in Irbid city-Jordan; who provided primary data by completing a designated self-administered questionnaire. A model of nine hypotheses was developed and examined using independent-samples t-tests and one way ANOVA tests. Study's findings revealed a large number of variables influencing restaurant employees' food handling practices including socio-demographic measures (such as age & education), workrelated elements (such as restaurant size & HACCP implementation) and culture. This study explores a previously confined researched field -cultural influences on restaurant employees' food handling practices contributing to a wider understanding of safe food handling which in turn should enhance food safety levels. It fructifies many recommendations embodying its findings' implications to enhance food safety levels; these include advocating HACCP implementation and more control on non-Jordanian restaurant employees' food safety competences.

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Tourism still generates negative effects on the environment that consequently objected the green practices in hotels; therefore, this study comes to measure the perception of international guests towards green practices in the Jordanian hotels. This study considers the first attempt that linked the tourists' perceptions toward green practices in hotels and their willingness to stay in eco-label hotels in Jordan. The study relied on the quantitative approach to measure the level of those practices as 270 questionnaires were collected during the period from March to September 2019. The questionnaire included questions on 7 eco-label criteria (Green hotel certification, Energy, Water, Waste and Purchasing Management, Community support and Customer education) comprising all areas of hotel operations, and 3 statements to measure hotel guests’ guests’ willingness to stay in eco-label hotel. The statistical analysis was performed using SPSS program version 21. The study found a positive but moderate correlation between tourists' perceptions towards environmental practices and their stay in eco-hotels. In addition, the various dimensions of environmental practices were positively related to tourists staying in an environmentally friendly hotel. This is one of the first studies that linked tourists' perceptions towards green practices in the hotels and their willingness to stay in eco-label hotel.