Green Human Resource Management Practices and Environmental Performance in Ghana: The Role of Green Innovation

Abstract

Purpose- Protecting the natural environment and its wealth for future generations has become an essential topic for policymakers and executives. This study seeks to examine the impact of green Human Resource Management practices through green innovation on the environmental performance of small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises in Ghana. Design/Methodology- Through simple random probability sampling, data were obtained from three hundred (300) business owners and employees from ten (10) small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. However, two hundred and ninety-four (294) accurate responses were used in the analysis due to incomplete and missing figures. Data were analyzed using partial least squared based on Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). Findings- The studied data met internal consistency reliability, convergent, and discriminant validity from the results, and also, there was no multicollinearity issue in the study model. The findings revealed that green Human Resource Management practices directly and significantly influence environmental performance. Furthermore, green innovation partially mediated the influence of green Human Resource Management practices on environmental performance. Green compensation through green innovation has the most incredible impact on environmental performance and was statistically significant at p< 0.01. Practical Implications- This finding provides valuable suggestions for policymakers, emerging and existing organizations, particularly manufacturing firms, to encourage environmentally-friendly activities and produce goods and processes through a successful incentive scheme, thus increasing customer loyalty.

Investigating the Relationship Between Local Business and Employment Creation for Poverty Reduction in Northern Ghana: The Moderating Role of Local Economic Development (LED) Policy

“…In contrast, the model has collinearity issues when the variance inflation factor values are less than five. According to the results of the VIF evaluation in Table 4, values lesser than 5 were found, indicating that the model used in this study does not suffer from collinearity, supporting those of Ahakwa et al (2021b, 2021c), Chen et al (2022), and Odai et al (2021).…”

“…According to the results of the VIF evaluation in Table 4, values lesser than 5 were found, indicating that the model used in this study does not suffer from collinearity, supporting those of Ahakwa et al (2021bAhakwa et al ( , 2021c, Chen et al (2022), andOdai et al (2021).…”

What motivates the most? Money or Empowerment: Mediating Role of Employee Commitment to Organizational Performance

“…The HRM practices that contribute to employee commitment in one organization and management style may not be valid in another country's organization with a different decisionmaking style (Hyun & Oh, 2011). The research studies infer that HRM practices lead to firms' financial and non-financial performance (Ahakwa, Yang, Agba Tackie, & Asamany, 2021;Katou & Budhwar, 2006), employee commitment, and service recovery performance (Mihardjo et al, 2020), transformational leadership behavior, and employee motivation (Alhashedi, Bardai, Al-Dubai, & Alaghbari, 2021). A broad group of writing exists investigating the effect of these HR practices (compensation and empowerment) on HR outcomes (organizational commitment) and examining any interceding role of these HR outcomes on organizational performance in developed nations.…”

Green Human Resource Management: The Path to Corporate Environmental Performance

“…Conclusively, many studies have shown that the required Green HRM practices would produce a better environmental performance for firms (Ahakwa et al, 2021;Amjad et al, 2021). As the studies of Jabbour & Jabbour, (2016); Teixeira et al, (2012) indicated that companies holding the ISO 14001 certification mostly are in a pool position to produce a better environmental performance since they deliberately make budgetary allocations to this course.…”

“…3 (Shafaei et al, 2020) It helps to achieve greater employee job satisfaction and dedication, which leads to increased productivity. 4 (Ahakwa et al, 2021;Amjad et al, 2021) Create good public relations and add green initiatives to the organization 5 (Roscoe et al, 2019b;Singh et al, 2020b) Develop a culture of concern for the holistic well-being of fellow employees.…”