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Green Human Resource Management. Assessing the Impact on the Environmental Sustainability of Banks (Nigeria Case Study)

Holo Matthew Aker, Abubakar Sadiq Suleiman

DOI 10.55140/2782–5817–2022–2–4–82–95

As the ESG agenda is gaining popularity around the world, companies start paying more and more attention to environmental responsibility, striving to reduce ecological damage. Green human resource management practices are becoming part of corporate strategies. For example, this means electronic workflow, from online vacancy announcements to employee training to use the resources sparingly and to conserve energy. In this article, we discuss the effects of “green” HR on the environmental sustainability of banks in Katsina State, Nigeria.

Holo Matthew Aker

Department of Business Management, Federal University Dutsin-ma, Katsina State, Nigeria

Abubakar Sadiq Suleiman

PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Business Management, Federal University Dutsin-ma, Katsina State, Nigeria

INTRODUCTION

The global concern for environmental sustainability is on the increase. This is a result of the growing threats of climate change and global warming, as well as other environmental challenges, which are compelling individuals, organizations and governments to be more responsive to the environment. These environmental concerns have posed multifaceted managerial challenges to present-day management of organizations and have fundamentally affected operations, strategies, policies and culture of business organizations globally (Cohen et al., 2014). This phenomenon has necessitated the need to integrate environmental management practices and human resource management practices in organizations (Ali & Wael, 2018; Briggs, 2017; Renwick, et al., 2012).

Human resource management plays a crucial function in managing and coordinating the policies, activities and resources of an organization (Renwick et al., 2012) and is pivotal to achieving environmental sustainability (Ramasamy et al., 2017). Hence the growing research interest in Green Human Resource Management (GHRM) that denotes the integration of human resource management practices and environmental management practices to encourage employees' commitment to environmental protection (Gharibeh, 2019).

Though GHRM is a relatively new concept in human resource management that is still underdeveloped in Nigeria (Adesola et al. 2021; Diri & Otekenari, 2021), the global threat of climate change and other environmental challenges affecting Nigeria have made it a necessity in the business circles and beyond, specifically in Katsina State, which is a state in Nigeria confronted with environmental issues like drought, desert encroachment, deforestation, land degradation, erosion and pollutions caused by climate change (Abaje, et al., 2017; Ibrahim, 2018), and other harmful environmental threats that need to be curbed.