How Green Human Resource Management Enhances Sustainable Performance: Organizational Green Culture and Top Management Support
Abstract
This study examines the effect of green human resource management (GHRM) on environmental and social performance, with organizational green culture (OGC) as a mediator and top management support (TMS) as a moderator. Data from 197 respondents at a manufacturing company in East Kalimantan were analyzed via PLS-SEM in SmartPLS. Results show GHRM significantly affects OGC, environmental performance, and social performance, though negatively for the latter. OGC significantly influences environmental but not social performance, and does not mediate the GHRM-performance relationship. TMS does not moderate the OGC-performance relationships. These findings indicate that strengthening GHRM practices directly, rather than through organizational culture or top management support, is the more critical driver of corporate sustainability.
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