Content area
Full text
Keywords:
Green human resource management
Manufacturing Firms
Organization Performance
Pakistan
ABSTRACT
. The study aims to investigate the impact of perceived green human resource management on organizational performance. The data were collected through a structured questionnaire from 198 human resource personnel of manufacturing firms operating in the industrial area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). The data were analyzed using the SPSS software package. The results indicated that there is a positive impact of green recruitment & selection on organization performance. Likewise, green pay & rewards and green involvement have positively predicted organization performance. on firm performance. However, green performance management recorded negative and green rewards have no impact on organization performance. The study has significant implications for academic and industrial practitioners regarding the implementation of green human resource management and organization performance. The study also fills the gap and provides social implications.
INTRODUCTION
Considering the damaging effects caused by industries in terms of pollution, toxic chemicals, and other waste materials, certain rules and regulations are being promoted by NGO's as well as government to avert the destruction of natural resources and their negative effect on the living beings, communities and society at large (Christmann & Taylor, 2002; Yong, Yusliza, Ramayah, & Fawehinmi, 2019). The authors further noticed that there is an increased concern for climate change by the world economies and almost all the sectors including business organizations (Abbott & Wilson, 2014). Specific treaties have emerged showing significant interest in environmentalism around the globe to combat climate change (Shah, 2019a; Shi et al., 2012). In this regard, both strong leaderships, as well as the concrete process, is required so that the corporate strategies concerning sustainability may be implemented successfully. Issues regarding sustainability are moving up quite fast on the priority list of leaders of corporations as the concept of "Green" has been incorporated into the corporate strategy but still, most of the practitioners are not comfortable with the human resource topic. Human resources are an important and valuable asset of a corporation that is dealt with by the human resource function of management. The concept of sustainability is applied to the context of HRM. Expanding the proposition, the most vital element of the concept of sustainability is Green HRM.
This paper inclusively focuses on green...