GREENING THE WORKFORCE: EVALUATING THE IMPACT OF GREEN HRM ON BANK EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE -EVIDENCE FROM PUNJAB USING STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING

Abstract

Green Human Resource Management (GHRM) took a shape in the form of a strategy of ensuring that the manner of how people worked was moderated as per the needs of the ecological goals. The research aims to determine the impact of Green Human Resource Management (GHRM) practices viz, green recruitment, selection practices, green training and employee relations on employee performance in government and privately owned banks. The research conducted is quantitative and cross-sectional in nature and progressed through administration of structured questionnaires to the 487 banking professionals. The scale and
structural models were validated using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) using AMOS v 24. As the findings show, each of the four GHRM practices has a significant positive influence on employee performance. The highest effect was linked to green training and then employee relation training, recruitment and selection practices. Generally, the model was very fit (CFI = 0.951, RMSEA = 0.053) which means that the proposed framework was good. These findings indicate that adoption of environmental sustainability through green HR practices is also advantageous to organization performance. The study offers very useful
recommendations to not only the banking organizations, but also HR policy makers who want to balance between being green and staying efficient at work.