study identifies how Green Human Resource Management (HRM) practices have influenced employee behavior within the higher educational institutions. Green HRM can be summed as HR practices and policies that facilitate environmental sustainability in an organization. The research focuses on determining the impacts of these practices on employee job satisfaction, motivation, commitment to the organisation and behaviour of citizenship. The study involved combined methods of data collection such as; survey and interviews aiming at collecting both quantitative and qualitative data among faculty and administrative members of different institutions. The result indicates that Green HRM practices were very effective and they greatly improve the effort of employee engagement and establish a culture of sustainability. Nevertheless, issues like resistance towards change especially by long-tenured employees as well as issues concerning the viability of green programs were also discovered. The study highlights the need to incorporate customized Green HRM interventions and institutional facilitation to employ the optimum effect to influence the behavior of employees. The findings help to employ sustainable HR practice in the academia and recommend useful tips for institutions of higher learning.
Dr. G. Subashini, Prof. B. Vijayalakshmi, Y. Santhipriya (2026) studied this question.