Impact of Green Human Resource Management on Employee’s Innovative Behavior and Adaptive Performance: Mediating role of Perceived Green Organizational Support

Abstract

Green Human Resource Management is the core area on which almost all the developed countries are working and reaping benefits of their research findings. The research on this area is growing with the passage of time and researchers of under-developed countries are also conducting research in this area for addressing the problems in a better way. However, the main focus of such researches is in the developed countries and the country like Pakistan is still lag behind due to little research in the area. The objective of the current study is to analyze the impact of green human resource management on the employee’s innovative behavior and employee’s adaptive performance. Perceived green organizational performance plays a mediating role in the study. This study will be equally important for services industry including banks, hotels, hospitals etc and also in manufacturing industy. The respondents of the study are the bank branch managers of all the banks of KP (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa). Data for the study was gathered through questionnaire (survey). SEM Structural Equation Modeling which is widely used data analysis technique has been employed in the study by using SMART PLS-4 software. SPSS statistical package for social sciences has also been used for the descriptive statistics analysis. The findings of the data analysis depict the significant relations among the variable. As per the findings of the analysis Green Human Resources Management has an impact employee’s innovative behavior and employee’s adaptive performance. Perceived green organizational support has played the role of mediation as per findings of the study. The prevailing study adds to the literature and covers the past insufficiencies in the previous literature, as few studies have been conducted in Pakistan. The study has implications both practically and theoretically. Organizations in Pakistan including service oriented and manufacturing industries can get benefit by implementing the finding of the study.