DOKBAT 2020 - 16th International Bata Conference for Ph.D. Students and Young Researchers

Abstract

Prior researches have paid limited interest to relationship among green human resource management (GHRM) and sustainability. This study aims to contribute to address the research gap in the existing literature of GHRM relating to how sustainability play role in organizations. This study examined systematically the literature on the contemporary and emerging aspect of ecological management of human resources in the workplace and proposed future research programs to meet the needs of organizational sustainability. This detailed literature review has considered a relatively 60 studies published over 13 years, i.e., from January 2008 to March 2020 by using Web of Science and Scopus – aiming to cover studies related to the GHRM research topic. The NVivo Plus version 12 employed for qualitative analysis of articles. This study explored a theoretical model suggesting the meditational role of ‘green transformational leadership along with moderators (green intrinsic and extrinsic motivation) in the correlation among ‘green human resource management practices’ and sustainability. Therefore, it is important that employees and organizations should prioritize economic, environmental and social performance as to ensure sustainable green human resource management.