Linking green HRM practices to environmental performance through pro-environment behaviour in the information technology sector

Adedapo Oluwaseyi Ojo, Christine Nya-Ling Tan and Mazni Alias

Social Responsibility Journal, 2020, vol. 18, issue 1, 1-18

Abstract: Purpose - Existing literature acknowledges the role of green human resource management (GHRM) in shaping employees’ pro-environmental behaviour and environmental performance. However, limited studies have investigated the specific impacts of GHRM practices on pro-environmental behaviour from the employees’ perspectives. This study aims to conceptualise GHRM practices as internal resources that can be used to stimulate employee pro-environmental information technology (IT) behaviour. Design/methodology/approach - The hypothesised relationships were tested with the aid of partial least square path modelling of data collected from 333 IT professionals in ISO 14001 companies in Malaysia. Findings - The results suggest that green training and development, performance management and empowerment and participation are essential in stimulating pro-environmental IT behaviour. Besides, the mediating effects of pro-environmental IT behaviour were significant for the impacts of green training and development, performance management and green empowerment and participation on environmental IT performance. Research limitations/implications - The results indicate that GHRM practices are significant predictors of environmental IT performance, but training and development could be counter-productive to performance unless it stimulates employees’ engagement in pro-environmental behaviour. Originality/value - This study contributes to the resource-based view of HRM by examining GHRM practices as organisational resources for stimulating employee pro-environmental IT behaviour to support environmental IT performance.

Keywords: Information technology; Green IT; Pro-environmental behaviour; Environmental performance; Green HRM; Sustainable environmental management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1108/SRJ-12-2019-0403

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