PERCEIVED ROLE OF SELECTED GREEN HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES TOWARD PRO-ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOR OF EMPLOYEES WORKING IN MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY IN KABUL, AFGHANISTAN

Abstract

The study in hand examined the character of selected green human resource management practices toward the pro-environmental behavior of employees working in the manufacturing industry in Kabul, Afghanistan. This study considered the positivism technique. The data collection was done through questionnaires from 351 employees working in manufacturing industries and subjected to SPSS for analysis. The findings of the study revealed that selected green HRM-Practices (GR&S, GT&D, and GPM) are positive predictors of employees’ proenvironmental behavior. Furthermore, the study obviously improves its contribution toward an original research line to comprehend the essentials of GHRM practices to improve employee pro-environmental behavior in Afghanistan. Particularly, the study contributes to the managerial level to understand how their efforts toward the implementation of GHRM-practices generate pro-environmental behavior. The study suggests that managers and employees at all levels should maintain green practices to cope with rising environmental issues in the manufacturing industries of Afghanistan. Moreover, the study was one of the few research efforts in the Afghanistan context to integrate GHRM-practices with employee’s pro-environmental behavior, where still much research studies on GHRM-practices needed to reveal their influence on environmental issues.