Impact of Green Human Resource Management Practices on Firm's Environmental Performance: The Mediating Role of Green Organizational Culture

Abstract

During the last decade, there has been an increasing trend in the corporate sector giving priorities for environmental-friendly policies and practices. Accordingly, scholars have examined the role of Green Human Resource Management (GHRM) practices in organizational success. However, most of these studies examined the effect of GHRM on firm performance, and it has given little attention to understand the role of green organizational culture (GOC) in enhancing environment performance (EP). Thus, based upon the Ability-Motivation-Opportunity model, this study focuses on examining the effect of GHRM on GOC and EP. The study’s research design mainly focused on post-positivism philosophy followed by deductive approach. Researcher used survey method to collect data and the nature of study is cross-section as the data collection is limited one point in time. To test the hypotheses, data were collected from 410 employees working in the Manufacturing firms in Sri Lanka. The findings of this study show that there is a significant impact of GHRM on GOC and EP. Moreover, results revealed that GOC mediates the association between GHRM and EP. The results of this study should be explained in the light of its limitation. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

During the last decade, there has been an increasing trend in the corporate sector giving priorities for environmental-friendly policies and practices. Accordingly, scholars have examined the role of Green Human Resource Management (GHRM) practices in organizational success. However, most of these studies examined the effect of GHRM on firm performance, and it has given little attention to understand the role of green organizational culture (GOC) in enhancing environment performance (EP). Thus, based upon the Ability-Motivation-Opportunity model, this study focuses on examining the effect of GHRM on GOC and EP. The study’s research design mainly focused on post-positivism philosophy followed by deductive approach. Researcher used survey method to collect data and the nature of study is cross-section as the data collection is limited one point in time. To test the hypotheses, data were collected from 410 employees working in the Manufacturing firms in Sri Lanka. The findings of this study show that there is a significant impact of GHRM on GOC and EP. Moreover, results revealed that GOC mediates the association between GHRM and EP. The results of this study should be explained in the light of its limitation. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.