Subramanian, Nachiappan, Roscoe, Samuel and Jabbour, Charbel Jose Chiappetta (2019) Green human resource management and the enablers of green organisational culture: enhancing a firm’s environmental performance for sustainable development. Business Strategy and the Environment. ISSN 0964-4733 (Accepted)

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Abstract

Scholars have shown that Green Human Resource Management (GHRM) practices enhance a firm’s environmental performance. However, existing studies fail to explain how GHRM initiatives can enable a green organisational culture or how such a culture affects the environmental performance and sustainable development of the firm. This paper examines the relationship between GHRM practices, the enablers of green organisational culture and a firm’s environmental performance. We conduct a large-scale survey of 204 employees at Chinese manufacturing firms. Our findings suggest that pro-environmental HRM practices including hiring, training, appraisal and incentivisation support the development of the enablers of green organizational culture. We suggest the key enablers of green organizational culture include leadership emphasis, message credibility, peer involvement, and employee empowerment. Our paper contributes to HRM theory in terms of originality and utility of research by explaining that the enablers of green organisational culture positively mediate the relationship between GHRM practices and environmental performance. Managers are provided with a detailed understanding of the GHRM practices needed to enable an organisational culture of environmentally aware employees. Finally, we address potential implications of this work for teaching green organisational culture to future generations of responsible managers.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	green organisational culture, green human resource management, environmental performance, sustainable development
Schools and Departments:	School of Business, Management and Economics > Business and Management
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HF Commerce > HF5001 Business > HF5387 Business ethics H Social Sciences > HF Commerce > HF5001 Business > HF5549 Personnel management. Employment management
Depositing User:	Samuel Roscoe
Date Deposited:	14 Jan 2019 14:53
Last Modified:	14 Jan 2019 14:53
URI:	http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/81260

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