Abstract:

The integration of environmental practices into human resource policies is one of the major challenges faced by human resources managers due to companies awareness that they have to implement policies to achieve economic, social and environmental goals The green human resource management merged has a process to support companies environmental goals of through the involvement of the employees in practices related to protection of environment and maintaining ecological balance. The aim of this study is to theorizes and empirically tests the relationship between the perceptions of green human resources practices, green knowledge sharing and green creativity and the impact on social innovation and environmental performance, to support companies change towards sustainability in Saudi Arabia. Based on the literature on green human resource management, we developed a structural equation model that links employee perceptions of green human resources practices, green knowledge sharing and green creativity to social innovation and environmental performance. Furthermore, we investigated the mediating role of green human capital regarding the relationships between green human resource practices, green knowledge and green human capital with social innovation and environmental performance. To achieve the objectives of this research a survey based on literature review, was designed and data was collected from employees working in differences sectors, such as: finance, oil, power industry, food, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries were collected. Structural equation modelling was used to analyses the hypothesized mediation model.