Green HRM and Work Life

Abstract

Recent years the organizations have become more awake of the vital role played by the newlinegreen initiatives. This study seeks to examine how Green Human Resource Management newlinecontributes to the formation of employee job satisfaction (JST) and organization newlinecommitment (OCM) through employee work-life. Based on a comprehensive literature newlinereview on Green HRM, work-life, job satisfaction and organization commitment, a newlinetheoretical model was proposed for investigation. Six putative paths linking Green HRM newline(GHRM) to Job satisfaction (JST), Job satisfaction (JST) to Organization Commitment newline(OCM), Green HRM (GHRM) to Working-Life (WLF), Green HRM (GHRM) to newlinePrivate-Life (PLF), Working-Life (WLF) to Job satisfaction (JST) and Private-Life newline(WLF) to Job satisfaction (JST) were then tested. In which direct and indirect effect of newlinegreen HRM (GHRM) on job satisfaction (JST) and organization commitment (OCM) newlinewere tested relying on a survey data of 322 employees collected from LEED certified newlinecompanies uses structural equation modeling (SEM) methodology as prescribed by Hair newlineet al., (1998). newline8 newlineSignificant evidences were witnessed in support of GHRM, work-life, job satisfaction newlineand organization commitment. In future, there will be a need to replicate current study to newlinesee if its findings hold true for other green buildings. There is also a need to focus more newlineon green training and rewarding employees for their green practices in work-life in order newlineto generate a green culture valuable to an organization environmental performance and newlinegreen workplace for occupantand#8223;s satisfaction. The organizations need to be extremely newlinecautious of green concerns during the design phase in order to capitalize on the yields of newlinebetter employee organization commitment. It also motivates the other organizational newlinegroup toward the green concept to increase the employee job satisfaction and to enhance newlineorganizational values. While the green concept has been a significant research topic for newlinemore than decades, barely any research has been conducted that focuses specifically o