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State-of-the-Art and Future Directions for Green Human Resource Management: Introduction to the Special Issue

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A special issue on green HRM aims to stimulate the field of HRM to expand its role in the pursuit of environmentally sustainable business as discussed by the authors. But the field has been relatively slow to engage in the ongoing discussions and debates.
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The topic of environmental sustainability is generating increased concern among business executives, governments, consumers, and management scholars. As these stakeholders struggle with the challenges and opportunities presented by an array of environmental issues, HRM scholars and practitioners alike have been relatively slow to engage in the ongoing discussions and debates. Through this special issue on Green HRM, we seek to stimulate the field of HRM to expand its role in the pursuit of environmentally sustainable business. In this introduction to the special issue, we first provide an overview of the articles that appear in the special issue. Next we present a detailed discussion of research questions that arise from a consideration of several functional HRM practices, including performance management; training, development, and learning; compensation and rewards; and organizational culture. We conclude by describing opportunities for research at the intersection of strategic HRM and environmental management. If pursued with vigor, research addressing this extensive agenda could begin to establish a healthy field of Green HRM scholarship. Forschungsstand und Entwicklungsmoglichkeiten fur Umweltorientiertes Personalmanagement: Einfuhrung in das Schwerpunktheft Nachhaltigkeit in Umweltfragen ist ein immer wichtigeres Anliegen fur Unternehmensleitungen, Regierungen, Konsumenten und Wirtschaftswissenschaftler. Wahrend diese Akteure mit den Herausforderungen und Moglichkeiten unterschiedlicher Umweltfragen ringen, engagieren sich Personalwirtschaftler relativ zuruckhaltend in entsprechenden Diskursen. Mit diesem Sonderheft zum Umweltorientierten Personalmanagement mochten wir die Personalwirtschaft stimulieren, ihre Rolle zu erweitern und sich mehr mit umweltorientierten Nachhaltigkeitsfragen zu beschaftigen. In der Einleitung stellen wir zuerst die Beitrage dieses Heftes vor und diskutieren dann die Forschungsfragen, die sich aus einer Betrachtung verschiedener Personalfunktionen ergeben. Am Ende beschreiben wir die Moglichkeiten fur Forschung an der Schnittstelle von Strategischem Personalmanagement und Umweltweltmanagement. Energisch verfolgt, kann Forschung entlang dieser extensiven Agenda helfen, Umweltorientiertes Personalmanagement zu etablieren.

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Green Human Resource Management: A Review and Research Agenda*

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors make a case for the integration of the largely separate literatures of environmental management (EM) and human resource management (HRM) research, and they categorize the existing literature on the basis of Ability-Motivation-Opportunity (AMO) theory.
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An Aspirational Framework for Strategic Human Resource Management

TL;DR: The field of strategic human resource management (HRM) has a long and rich tradition as mentioned in this paper, and it has attracted much attention over the past three decades, paying particular attention to the value of HRM systems as management tools for influencing a wide variety of outcomes of concern to internal (employees and their managers) and external (owners, customers, society, other organizations).
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Greening organizations through leaders' influence on employees' pro-environmental behaviors

TL;DR: In this article, a model that links environmentally-specific transformational leadership and leaders' workplace proenvironmental behaviors to employees' pro-environmental passion and behaviors was developed and tested.
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The Impact of Human Resource Management on Environmental Performance: An Employee-Level Study

TL;DR: Li et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated the relationship between strategic human resource management, internal environmental concern, organizational citizenship behavior for the environment, and environmental performance, and found that internal environmental concerns moderate the effect of human resources management on environmental performance.
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Beyond strategic human resource management: is sustainable human resource management the next approach?

TL;DR: Sustainable human resource management (sustainable HRM) as mentioned in this paper is an approach that seeks to link HRM and sustainability by explicitly identifying the negative as well as the positive effects of HRM on a variety of stakeholders.
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