Green human resource management and supervisor pro-environmental behavior: The role of green work climate perceptions

Abstract

This research draws on the Theory of Planned Behavior to examine how green work climate perceptions mediate the relationship between green human resource management (GHRM) and pro-environmental behavior. Results based on a sample of 397 supervisors show that GHRM had a significant relationship with green work climate perceptions. Green work climate perceptions were associated with pro-environmental behavior. Green work climate perceptions partially mediated the relationship between GHRM and pro-environmental behavior, suggesting green work climate perceptions as a mechanism explaining why GHRM may promote sustainable employee behavior at the workplace. These findings contribute to HRM's extended value in environmental concerns by illuminating new thoughts on the intervening mechanisms that link them with sustainable employee behaviors. Drawing insights from ongoing research on GHRM's role in enabling workplace sustainability, the paper reflects on what GHRM means for employees from the sustainable ready-made garment, the second-largest labor-intensive industry in Bangladesh. The findings also shed new light on the psychological mechanism that links GHRM and pro-environmental behavior.