Green Human Resource Management Practices and Organizational Sustainability Performance: A Conceptual Perspective

The growing global focus on environmental sustainability has highlighted the green dimension of management, showing the importance of human resource management’s role in setting up organization practices in line with ecological, economic and social environment objectives. According to the researcher, organizations are faced with challenges on how to integrate sustainability into their operations due to the lack of guarantee of integration of human resource practices with environmental objectives, especially in developing economies such as Nigeria and across Africa. This theoretical article analyzes the connection between the green human resource management (GHRM) practices, which include green recruitment, green training, green performance appraisal, and green rewards and the performance of the organization in terms of sustainability (OSP). The primary objective is to develop an intensive framework on how the multidimensional GHRM practices can result in sustainability objectives by promoting the pro-environmental behaviour and organisational commitment with the green initiatives among the employees. The method applied in the research is conceptual research which is a synthesis of information available in the form of secondary sources of preliminary information i.e. peer reviewed journals, books, conference proceedings, and historical literatures. The analysis result demonstrates that the implemented GHRM practices can positively influence the economic efficiency as they may be wise and far-sighted environmentally and socially. Recommendations focus on embrace of integrated approaches of GHRM strategies, developing sustainable-oriented competencies, incentivizing environmentally being responsible behavior. The study concludes that a multidimensional approach to green HRM not only strengthens organizational sustainability performance but is also a strong basis for policy formulation and future empirical research both on a global and African organizational level.