Green Human Resource Management [GHRM] Practices in Pursuit of Reinvigorating Environmental Performance in IT Firms: A SEM approach

Abstract

Green Human Resource Management [GHRM] is a set of policies and practices that induces green behavior in a firm through its employees, resulting in a sustainable environmental performance of the firm. With the sustainable development goals approaching with its deadlines, it is indeed imperative to focus on the impact of GHRM on the environmental performance of any firm. In this study, IT firms have been considered as they play a very pivotal role in the economy of India, in this digital era, with the pandemic effects as an add-on. An empirical study with 261 samples collected from IT employees has been conducted to bring out the relationship between GHRM practices and environmental performance in selected IT firms through purposive sampling. The study findings depict that GHRM practices have a strong and positive impact on the environmental performance of the firms. It can be seen that GHRM is an effective business strategy resulting in both energy conservation, cost-cutting, reduction in carbon footprints as well as increasing the profitability of the firm. Thus, the study provides an useful insight towards going green for reinvigorating the environmental performance of the firms.