The effects of green human resource management on environmental performance in Turkey wood industry

The term Green Human Resource Management is a popular field of research within the developed countries and a materializing one for countries still within the stage of emerging economy. According to literature, GHRM has been beneficiary to both economy, social and environmental sectors of developed countries. Few studies has been done on how GHRM can be beneficiary and improve the economy and environmental status of developing countries. Organizational environment performance has been linked to Green Human Resource Management through the greening of specific Human Resource practice. This survey aims to investigate the effect of GHRM (hiring, training, and performance appraisal) on organizational environmental performance in developing or emerging economy taking Turkey wood industry. The wood industry was chosen in this survey been that which its activities has an enormous effect on the environment such as deforestation, transportation of logs, waste disposal and so on. Data was collated through a self-administered procedure from 293 employees in major 10 wood companies in Turkey. The hypotheses were tested with correlation and regression analysis. It was concluded that Green Human Resource Management (GHRM), Green Training, and Performance Appraisal all have positive effects on organizational Environmental Performance, but Green Hiring has a negative effect on organizational environmental performance in Turkey. Hence, organization in Turkey needs to input more green practices into their hiring procedures.