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Green and sustainable HRM

How people systems and culture connect with an organisation’s environmental goals.

Research overview / 2 publications in this theme

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Introduction

This strand looks at sustainability from the side of people management: how green human resource management and organisational culture relate to environmental performance.

Her 2024 paper in Organization & Environment, with Sudhanshu Maheshwari and Douglas Renwick, develops an integrative framework for green HRM and green culture and sets out directions for future research. It is the most-cited paper in her record. A 2025 conference paper turns to the ethical risks that can sit behind green goals.

Research questions

  • How do green HRM systems and organisational culture relate to environmental performance?
  • What does an integrative framework for green HRM and green culture need to account for?
  • What ethical implications follow when abusive supervision occurs in workplaces pursuing green goals?
Concepts

Concepts and frameworks.

Only the concepts named in the papers themselves or in her research statement, with where each comes from.

  • Green human resource management (GHRM)

    Organization & Environment, 2024
  • Green culture

    Organization & Environment, 2024
  • Sustainable competing values framework

    Organization & Environment, 2024
  • Abusive supervision

    Anusandhan RDAIS, 2025
Publications

Published work in this theme.

Authors in published order. Each summary describes what the work examines.

  1. 01Journal articleABDC A98 citations

    Maheshwari, S., Kaur, A. & Renwick, D. (2024)

    Green human resource management and green culture: An integrative sustainable competing values framework and future research directions

    Organization & Environment, 37(1), 32-56

    How a company culture shapes whether its green HR practices actually change its environmental performance, or stay on paper.

Conference papers

Award-winning conference papers.

  1. 01Conference paper

    2025

    When going green turns grey: The ethical implications of abusive supervision in hospitality workplaces

    Anusandhan, RDAIS

    Best Paper Award, HR and General Management Division

    The ethical implications of abusive supervision in hospitality workplaces, set against the push to go green.

Beyond the papers

In teaching and service

  • Visiting faculty for Sustainable Human Resource Management, University of Pécs, Hungary, 2025.
  • Track Chair, HR/OB, 3rd Annual Winter Conference on Sustainable Business, Great Lakes Gurgaon, December 2024.
  • Presented at the International Conference on Green HRM and Sustainable Behaviour, Vienna University of Economics and Business, March 2022.

Written for practitioners

  • Navigating the Green Shift: The Role of Sustainable Leadership

    People Matters, 2024. Co-authored.

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