The mediating role of employee engagement between green HRM practices and organizational commitment
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https://doi.org/10.23925/2179-3565.2025v16i3p127-142Keywords:
Green HRM practices, Green recruitment and selection, Green training and development, Green performance, Green compensation and rewards, Employee engagement, Organizational commitmentAbstract
Green human resource management, has gained a lot of attention and is now widely accepted within organizations. The wide adoption of green hrm practices by the employees is essential to its effective execution. This research investigates the mediation function of employee engagement with green HRM practices and organizational commitment, offering a fresh step forward in the transformation process towards sustainability. Quantitative research design was adopted for our study. Data was collected from 350 employees working in the automobile industries and PLS-SEM was used to analyze the data. The major findings of the study shows that employee engagement plays a full mediation role between green HRM practices such as green training and development, green performance and green compensation and rewards with organizational commitment. Employee engagement indicates a partial mediation between green recruitment and selection and organizational commitment The outcome of our study is contrary to the previous studies conducted in the automobile industry. There by this study suggests that creating awareness about environmental practices while recruiting employees will result in creating work engagement among the employees.
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