From green intentions to financial performance: assessing the influence of green HRM within Turkish SMEs

Cevahir Uzkurt, Safa Arslan, Pawan Budhwar, Emre Burak Ekmekcioglu and Semih Ceyhan

International Journal of Manpower, 2025, vol. 46, issue 8, 1460-1481

Abstract: PurposeThis study aims to explore the effect of green human resource management (GHRM) on employees’ pro-environmental behaviors. Furthermore, it explores the mediating role of employees’ pro-environmental performance in the relationship between GHRM and firms’ social performance. Finally, it tests a sequential mediation model that presents the indirect effects of GHRM practices on firms’ financial performance via employees’ task-related and proactive pro-environmental behaviors and firms’ social performance.Design/methodology/approachData were collected from 945 small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Türkiye. Structural equation modeling was conducted using MPlus software.FindingsThe results confirmed that GHRM has a significant indirect effect on firms’ financial performance via employees’ task-related and proactive pro-environmental behaviors and firms’ social performance.Practical implicationsThe results imply that SMEs should invest in GHRM practices to appraise employees’ task-related and proactive pro-environmental behaviors and align their approach to pro-environmental behaviors. SMEs should provide a workplace environment that encourages and motivates employees to engage in green activities and contribute to environmental management.Originality/valueThis study shows that employees’ task-related and proactive pro-environmental behaviors are critical to GHRM and firms’ social performance. Furthermore, the study brings new empirical evidence to the field of GHRM in the under-researched Turkish SMEs context.

Keywords: Social exchange theory; Resource-based theory; Green human resource management; SMEs; Employees’ pro-environmental behaviors; Türkiye; Firms’ pro-environmental performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1108/IJM-02-2024-0104

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