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

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  • Adedapo Oluwaseyi Ojo
  • Christine Nya-Ling Tan
  • Mazni Alias

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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.

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  • Adedapo Oluwaseyi Ojo & Christine Nya-Ling Tan & Mazni Alias, 2020. "Linking green HRM practices to environmental performance through pro-environment behaviour in the information technology sector," Social Responsibility Journal, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 18(1), pages 1-18, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:srjpps:srj-12-2019-0403
    DOI: 10.1108/SRJ-12-2019-0403
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    Cited by:

    1. Mendiola Teng-Calleja & Alfred Presbitero & Mira Michelle Guzman, 2023. "Organizational direction, expectations, and employees’ intention for Green HRM practices in the Philippines: a signaling theory perspective," Asian Business & Management, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 22(4), pages 1301-1327, September.
    2. Cong Wang, 2023. "Low-carbon transition toward green recovery: policy framework after COVID-19," Economic Change and Restructuring, Springer, vol. 56(5), pages 3117-3137, October.
    3. Li, Ping & Zhou, Ying & Huang, Sijie, 2023. "Role of information technology in the development of e-tourism marketing: A contextual suggestion," Economic Analysis and Policy, Elsevier, vol. 78(C), pages 307-318.

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