An Integrated Methodology for Green Human Resource Management in Construction Industry

Abstract

Today, by increasing public awareness about environmental issues and pressures from governments and other stakeholders companies have dealt with environmental challenges more than ever. This paper focuses on environmentally sustainable performance using an integrated method based on meta-synthesis, Delphi, and structural equation modeling (SEM) methods are utilized in different phases of the methodology. In the first phase, an in-depth review of green human resources management (GHRM) literature is conducted based on the meta-synthesis method and as a result, 38 codes were extracted. Then, to adapt and customize the codes with the nature of the construction industry, 2 rounds of the Delphi method are applied to collect the expert judgment from a panel of 15 industry professionals, resulting in 21 codes in 7 categories. Finally, to verify the proposed model the data from 33 Iranian construction companies were collected and by using SEM, 15 factors in 5 categories are presented. The findings indicated that among 9 main GHRM components extracted from the literature, just 5 components including green recruitment and selection, green performance management, green- reward, green-based employee empowerment, and green training have significant and positive relationships with GHRM. The paper also provides some managerial insights and some future directions.