Lashari Ishfaque Ahmed, Li Qiyuan, Maitlo Qamaruddin, Bughio Faraz Ali, Jhatial Ashique Ali, Rashidi Syed Obed
School of Management, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China.
School of Management, China West Normal University, Sichuan, China.
Front Psychol. 2022 Nov 14;13:1007710. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1007710. eCollection 2022.
Environmental sustainability has gained great momentum worldwide especially in the United Nations (UN), governments, and corporations, and by those who promote global awareness of environmental challenges and are engaged in environmental management. Even as these stakeholders struggle hard, academia has actively engaged in an ongoing debate to make "green human resource management" an independent field of research and teaching. From the large body of academic literature, it has been observed that the field is yet in its embryonic stage in many developing countries such as Pakistan and there is insufficient knowledge on how universities face and manage environmental challenges. Hence, this study addressed this gap in the literature and measured the perception of public and private sector university managers regarding environmental sustainability by using a multi-respondent multi-wave design and collected data from academic heads/supervisors and university faculty in three-time intervals. The data found support for all the hypothetical relationships. The study revealed that the green human resource management (GHRM) practices of public and private universities have a positive impact on environmental sustainability through the mediation of innovative work behavior of employees.
环境可持续性在全球范围内已获得巨大发展动力，尤其是在联合国、各国政府和企业中，以及在那些促进全球对环境挑战的认识并从事环境管理的人士当中。即便这些利益相关者在努力奋斗，学术界也积极参与了一场正在进行的辩论，以使“绿色人力资源管理”成为一个独立的研究和教学领域。从大量学术文献中可以看出，在许多发展中国家，如巴基斯坦，该领域仍处于萌芽阶段，对于大学如何面对和管理环境挑战的了解不足。因此，本研究填补了文献中的这一空白，通过采用多受访者多轮设计，测量了公立和私立大学管理人员对环境可持续性的看法，并在三个时间间隔内收集了学术负责人/主管和大学教师的数据。研究数据支持了所有假设关系。研究表明，公立和私立大学的绿色人力资源管理（GHRM）实践通过员工创新工作行为的中介作用，对环境可持续性产生积极影响。
