GREENING ORGANIZATION FROM WITHIN: UNVEILING EMPLOYEE RESPONSES TO GREEN HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

“if a company is to adopt an environmentally-aware approach to its activities, the employees are the key to its success or failure” (Wehrmeyer, 1996 p.56). In 1996 Wehrmeyer published a book entitled “Greening people: Human resources and environmental management” first introducing the idea that in every organization each employee could play a key role within environmental management to determine its successful implementation. This idea later originated a stream of research which entirely builds upon this human-centric approach to organizational environmental sustainability. Such an approach is referred to as Green Human Resource Management (GHRM) and represents the core essence of the present dissertation. More specifically, this dissertation consists in a collection of three chapters which all have the goal of presenting three different empirical contributions to the advancement of the GHRM scholarship. Before delving into the content of each chapter, an overview of the stream of research of GHRM will be provided, along with the latest trends and developments in the field. This will illustrate the conceptual framework which underpins the three chapters of the present dissertation.