Green HR Practices to Build Business Sustainability: Structural Equation Modelling Approach

Global Warming and Climate Change has led to the growing need of integrating green practices and environment management into business. Today the situation is such that a business can sustain only if it is able to implement strategies and policies that help in their mission of sustainability. All departments in the organisation should be integrated to the sustainability mission to face the challenges of climate change and sustain in the long run. The HR department play a key role in linking the sustainability mission of the organisation to the employees. The purpose of the paper is to identify the green initiatives taken by the HR in its functions of green recruitment, green training and green performance appraisal to combat the challenges posed by climate change and build business sustainability. To evaluate the association between the variables used for the study a model was drawn and the results of model indicate absolute best fit indices fits the sample data and reveals that the propose model has the acceptable fit, by way of satisfying the recommended value. For deriving the model a structured questionnaire was designed and distributed to HR professionals working in Chennai city.