Green Human Resource Management Practices And its Relationship to the Green Behavior of Employees Of Government Agencies in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: A Prospective Study

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the level of green human resource management practices and green employee behavior, and the relationship between them in the government agencies in Saudi Arabia. And to determine the extent to which there are differences in the level of awareness of green human resource management practices. The research sample consisting of (397) government agencies employee. The descriptive survey method was used, and the data was provided by a questionnaire.
The results showed that government agencies adopt green human resource management practices to a moderate degree in general; green training and development were found to be highly practiced, while green recruitment and selection, green performance management and green compensation management were moderately practiced. The study found that employees of government agencies practice a high degree of green behavior.
The results also revealed that there is a positive relationship between (green recruitment and selection, green training and development, green performance management and green compensation management) with employees green behavior whether is task-related or voluntary.
The study found that there are differences in the level of awareness of green human resource management practices according to the gender and qualification, while there are no differences according to age, years of experience, and administrative position. Moreover, the study recommended expanding the adoption of green human resources management practices in government sectors; in order to achieving environmental sustainability, which is one of the Saudi vision (2030) goals.