Role of Green Human Resource Management Practices on Pro-Environmental Behavior of Employees Through Mediating Role of Talent Engagement in Hotel Industry of Islamabad, Pakistan.

Abstract

The purpose of this research study was to investigate the role of Green Human Resource Management Practices on the Pro-Environmental Behaviors of employees in the Hospitality industry of Pakistan. Further, the mediation role of talent engagement. This study investigated engagement in two dimensions organization engagement and job engagement The hospitality industry in Pakistan is mostly having hotels where the lack of awareness about the green initiatives and less interest of the management in environmental management practices is a big challenge. The majority of these hotels are not encouraging the pro-environmental behaviors of their employees and little appreciation and implementation of green human resource management practices can help the hotels both financially and environmentally. The data has been collected from hotels that are registered with the Pakistan hotel association (government of Pakistan) under the 3–5-star categories where front line employees were approached and from them 169 have responded to this study. The results of the study tell that green human resource management practices positively affect the Pro-Environmental Behavior of the employees, organization engagement mediates this relationship between the GHRM and PEB and also job engagement mediates the relationship between the GHRM and PEB. The findings of this study is important for hotels management to implement these GHRM practices. Management of hotels should pay more attention to enhancing GHRM practices in order to protect the environment