Green HRM Practices and Environmental Performance: Mediation of Employee Environmental Commitment

Abstract

The impact of green human resources management (Green HRM) practices, such as green competence building practices, green motivation enhancing practices, and green employee involvement practices on environmental performance via employee environmental commitment, was investigated in this study. An online survey of 155 academic personnel from 20 Pakistani universities ranked in UI-Green Metric 2021 for having green campuses was conducted using prior validated measures. The findings revealed a positive link of Green HRM practices (green competence building practices, green motivation enhancing practices, and green employee involvement practices) with employee environmental commitment and universities’ environmental performance. Employee environmental commitment mediated the relationship between all three Green HRM practices and environmental performance. Results suggest a need to enhance the environmental commitment of employees by promoting green HRM practices to increase green environmental performance for attaining environmental sustainability goals. Keywords: Green HRM practices, competence building, motivation enhancing, employee involvement, environmental commitment, environmental performance.