The Impact of the Mediating Role of Green Organizational Culture on the Relation between Human Resources Green Competencies and Organizational Environmental Performance in Major Palestinian Governmental Hospitals in the Gaza Strip

Abstract

This study aims at shedding light on the reality of human resource green competencies in Palestinian government hospitals in the Gaza Strip, clarifying the role of those competencies in improving organizational environmental performance. Furthermore, it clarifies the impact of green organizational culture on the relation between human resource green competencies and organizational environmental performance. The descriptive analytical approach was adopted. In addition, a questionnaire was designed to collect data from employees who work at nursing and administrative fields in government hospitals using two-stage cluster sample.Major conclusions indicated that the HR green competencies are weak among employees in the sampled hospitals. Moreover, there is a clear weakness in organizational environmental performance. In addition to weak green organizational culture.Eventually, it is recommended to design and initiate a clear environmental strategy and objectives. Furthermore, promote efforts to disseminate and encourage green culture, values, and beliefs among employees. Moreover, there is a need to develop and adopt practical and applicable green HRM functions. Also, educate and train employees to develop employees' green competencies. In addition, to increase employees' involvement and participation in green activities and solve environmental issues.

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“…In additional, there is little research on GMOC compared to previous research literature, so this will be one of the gaps to be examined in this paper. Meanwhile, GMOC has been researched in the context of companies (Abou-AL-Ross & Abu Mahadi, 2021;Tahir et al, 2019), Nevertheless, in contrast to the corporate sector, GMOC research has paid little attention to educational institutions. So that, there exist gaps in GMOC in the context of sustainable higher education institutions, which is an emerging area of research for future development.…”

“…Because of the least researched with respect to GMOC while still expanding the research on developing countries (Al-Swidi et al, 2021). Meanwhile, researchers have suggested that GMOC practices play a significant role in developing, motivating, and involving employees in improving environmental management (Abou-AL-Ross & Abu Mahadi, 2021).…”