Do green HRM practices influence employees' environmental performance?

Abstract

PurposeRecent research has demonstrated an increasing awareness among business communities about the importance of environmental concerns. Green human resource management (GHRM) has become a crucial business strategy for organizations because the human resource department can play a key role in going “green.” This study tests an integrative model incorporating the indirect effects of GHRM practices on employee organizational citizenship behavior toward environment (OCBE), through green employee empowerment. Moreover, this study investigates the moderating effect of individual green values on OCBE.Design/methodology/approachUsing a paper–pencil survey, we collected multisource data from 365 employees and their immediate supervisors from Pakistan.FindingsThe results of structural regression revealed that GHRM has a significant indirect effect on OCBE through green employee empowerment. The results also indicated that individual green values moderated the positive relationship between green employee empowerment and OCBE.Practical implicationsOrganizations should appropriately appraise workers’ green behavior and align their behavior to pay and promotion. Organizations should also encourage and motivate employees to be engaged in green activities and contribute to environmental management.Originality/valueThis study suggests that green employee empowerment and individual green values are important factors that influence the relationship between GHRM and employees' OCBE, and it empirically analyzes these proposed relationships in a developing country context.

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“…Different experts proposed several dimensions of GHRM. The present study usedfour dimensions of GHRMproposed by Renwick et al (2016).GHRM brings positive EPR by influencing OCBE-O in employees (Hameed et al, 2020;Luu, 2019). As far as OCBE-Ois concerned,"it is the voluntary act of employees towards accomplishing organizational environmental goals" (Robertson & Barling, 2017).…”

What’s Next for Green Human Resource Management: Insights and Trends for Sustainable Development

“…Shen, Dumont [47] put further light on green HRM scholarship and found that it affects employee intention of not to quit through organizational identification. Moreover various sustainability performance reflections like environmental performance, social performance and economic performance were effected by green HRM paradigm like Hameed, Khan [29] confirmed the enhancing of environmental performance by Green HRM paradigm, similar studies were conducted by [10,41,[48][49][50][51] to increase organizational performance.…”

“…In spite of various reflections/ dimension in Green HRM paradigm, literature has unanimously debated six most important reflections which are green recruitment, green selection, green training, green development, green performance management and green rewards and compensation. Contrary to this, the conceptualization of Green HR reflected on various aspects, for instance enhancing environmental performance [29], organizational attractiveness [30], development of employee green behavior [31]. Moreover Jackson, Renwick [5] also conceptualized green HR and indicated to merge its functions with environmental management.…”

“…This segment highlights the factors that are needed to execute green HRM practices. Findings suggests that various studies were performed to determine the executing factors like Hameed, Khan [29] and Tariq, Jan [38] identified green employee empowerment, Yong, Yusliza [39] highlighted on green intellectual capital, Paillé , Chen [40] emphasized on OCBE, Obeidat, Al Bakri [41] stressed on top management support, Moraes Silvana de, Chiappetta Jabbour Charbel [42] considered knowledge management. Moreover Teixeira, Jabbour [43] identified that collaboration, coordination and integration of top management commitment, environmental supportive organizational culture and teamwork are the pioneer factors of green HRM.…”

Tariff determination for municipal waste management power projects in Pakistan

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