The Effects of Green Human Resource Management and Environmental Knowledge on
Achieving Organizational Sustainability
Kadhim Saeed Awla1 and Mahabat Noori Abdullah2
1Business and Management Department, Faculty of Administrative Sciences and Economics
Tishk International University, Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq
2Department of Business Administration, College of Administration and Economics,
Sahalahaddin University-Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq
Correspondence: [email protected] – [email protected]
Received: November 4, 2022 Revised: December 11, 2022 Published: December 20, 2022
Abstract
This research attempts to demonstrate and determine the impact of green human resource
management in terms of four dimensions and environmental knowledge sources with its three
dimensions on organizational sustainability performance including three dimensions in a number
of mineral water production in Erbil city. The research began with a problem expressed through
several conceptual and practical questions, the most important of which is (to identify the level of
variables and identify the effect and correlation between the variable of the study) to validate the
study in several mineral water production factories in Erbil City. In order to achieve the research
objective and answer the questions, the study used descriptive analytical approach, then set a
hypothetical study that reflects the nature of relationships and effects between the variables and
dimensions of the study statistical test, for analyzing the data statistical tools (SPSS 25 & Excel)
software were used, and all employees of several mineral water production factories in Erbil were
the research population. For the data collection (6) factories were selected. The researcher used a
survey questionnaire to collect data. The researcher distributed (140) forms to the respondents.
The current study reached several conclusions by analyzing the data, such as identifying the
reliability test that the results were good, and then showed the level of the study variables, and then
analyzing the effects and relationships between variables The study found that there is a highly
significant positive relationship between the variable of the study.
Keywords: Green Human Resource Management, Environmental knowledge, Organizational
Sustainability Performance, Water Factory, Erbil City.
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Awla, K. S., & Abdullah, M. N. (2022). The Effects of Green Human Resource Management and Environmental Knowledge on Achieving Organizational Sustainability. Eurasian Journal of Management & Social Sciences, 3(4), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.23918/ejmss.V3i4p1
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