Green not (only) for profit: An empirical examination of the effect of environmental-related standards on employees’ recruitment

How green is my firm? Workers' attitudes and behaviors towards job in environmentally-related firms

“…More in line with the precise topic of our study, the empirical results found by Grolleau et al's (2012) show that if French firms have registered for environmental-related standards, they experience fewer difficulties in recruiting both professional and non-professional employees.…”

“…One of the rationales for these implementations is that firms may anticipate savings on production costs and, more specifically, on labor costs. However, the previous evidence on this assumption only provided some indirect indications that firms may improve their abilities to recruit and motivate their workforce (e.g., Turban and Greening, 1997;Grolleau et al, 2012).…”

“…Cao and Prakash (2011) show that the degree of trade competition increases the likelihood that firms join ISO 9000 standard while Bellesi et al (2005) and King et al (2006) illustrated how firms with potential foreign customers were more likely to registered with ISO 14001 standard. Moreover, as indicated by Grolleau et al (2012), there should be no influence of exports on workers' attitudes and behavior.…”

A Study on Implications of Implementing Green HRM in the Corporate Bodies with Special Reference to Developing Nations

“…However, this has been re-coined in the recent GHRM context, whereby it refers to the systematic hiring process, which focuses on the significance of the environment in making it a central element within the particular organization (Ahmad, 2015;Deepika & Karpagam, 2016). As such, the skills-set of the particular qualified candidates goes beyond the basic organizational performance in their areas of performance and into their ability to have basic understandings on the critical sustainability concepts such as recycling, conservation, as well as the creation of more logical and "green" world (Grolleau, Mzoughi, & Pekovic, 2012).…”

Do responsible employers attract responsible employees?

“…Three studies using data for French firms and employees find that, for firms that have adopted voluntary environmental standards, employees are more likely to work uncompensated overtime hours [4], labor productivity is higher [7], and difficulties with recruitment are smaller [8]. Nevertheless, when we look at these issues at an aggregated level, it is not easy to see through all the identification and interpretation problems that they present to the researcher.…”