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Corporate Practices of Green Human Resources Management

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  • Ardeshir Bazrkar

    (Islamic Azad University (Iran))

  • Ali Moshiripour

    (Islamic Azad University (Iran))

Abstract

Green education and development has a great impact upon improving the environmental performance of companies. Using the example of Iranian small and medium-sized oil and gas enterprises, the article evaluates the practices’ effect on environmental performance. The survey covered 386 employees from 30 companies. The most common measures of green human resources management were analyzed. All these practices have a positive and significant effect on the environmental performance of companies. The action of green education and development was introduced as the most effective measure. The results also demonstrated that four practices of green human resources management have a positive and significant impact upon performance due to environmental knowledge. Companies can use the findings of this research in implementing the green human resources management practices and continuous improvement of the environmental performance.

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  • Ardeshir Bazrkar & Ali Moshiripour, 2021. "Corporate Practices of Green Human Resources Management," Foresight and STI Governance (Foresight-Russia till No. 3/2015), National Research University Higher School of Economics, vol. 15(1), pages 97-105.
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    1. Huirong Xie & Teck Chai Lau, 2023. "Evidence-Based Green Human Resource Management: A Systematic Literature Review," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(14), pages 1-23, July.

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    Keywords

    strategic foresight; scenario planning; management; MSMEs; circular economy;
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    JEL classification:

    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
    • O32 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D

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