Green Human Resource Management: Scale Development and Validation

Abstract

Increasing green consciousness and sustainability in the Indian business environment forced the corporate Hospitality sector to realize the worth of green human resource management practices (GHRM) as a source of achieving sustainability.  This has now become an ideology that green Human Resource Management practices (GHRM) needs to be explored.  Despite the increasing significance of green human resource management practices, there is a paucity of valid research instruments to measure these practices in the Indian hospitality context.  Keeping in mind the fact that South Indian hospitality industry is the fastest growing tourism industry in India therefore, there is a need to develop a reliable and valid research scale to measure green human resource management practices (GHRM) in this context.  The changing and transforming Indian tourism sector offers a good testing field for this study of green human resource management practices (GHRM).  On the basis of extensive literature review five research constructs dedicated to Green human resource management practices identified and developed and refined i.e. GRSP, GTDP,GPEP, GRCP,GERP. The scale developed was empirically tested in the context of Kerala hospitality sector on 30 hospitality enterprises for ensuring of unidimensionality,  reliability and validity  using structural equation modelling (SEM)  by utilizing Lisrel 8.80.  This research is pioneering as it provides   a reliable and valid research instrument for measuring Green human resource management practices and empirically testing them in the context of Kerala hospitality industry.  The study concludes with a brief discussion and implications for the research.