The Impact of Strategic Human Resource Management on Environmental Performance: With Special Reference to Managerial Employees in Apparel Industry

Abstract

Dynamic organizations in the business world are looked at with numerous pressures from their stakeholders and statutory laws to develop and maintain environmentally responsible activities to go green (Molina-Azorin et al. 2009). Much recent interest has been paid to environmentalism globally, whether arising from specific treaties to combat climate or from harm/pollution resulting from high profile industrial accidents (Ramus and Steger, 2000). People are the most important asset in any organization and one of the main issues in arising environmental problems is, not having an effective human resource management process toward environmental performance. An effective link between strategic thinking of human resources and Environmental Performance (EP) by highlighting how employees are involved at their own levels in helping the workplaces to go green gives a positive impact in achieving environmental performance (Paillé et al. 2013).