Structural equation modeling of the mediating role of green human resource management in the relationship between senior management's green commitment and environmental performance

Green commitment and environmental performance is the result of feeling the concerns of people in the organization regarding environmental issues. Of course, there is no consensus in the academic literature regarding the definition of commitment regarding environmental issues, and even above this, perhaps there is no correct understanding of the commitment arising from individuals and organizations. The main goal of the current research is to model the structural equations of the impact of senior management's green commitment on environmental performance with the mediating role of green human resource management (a case study of Shahrekord manufacturing companies). The current research is practical in terms of purpose and descriptive-survey in terms of data collection. In this research, the questionnaire of Daly et al. (2007) was used to measure the variable of green commitment of senior management, the questionnaire of Jabour (2011) was used to measure the variable of green human resources, and the questionnaire of Kim et al. (2016) was used to measure the environmental performance. The statistical population of this research is 168 managers of manufacturing companies in Shahrekord, 117 of them were selected as a sample using Morgan's table, and the questionnaire was distributed among them by simple random sampling. SPSS and PLS software were used to analyze the data and test the hypotheses. The results show that the green commitment of senior management has a significant positive effect on the company's environmental performance. Also, the senior management's green commitment has a significant positive effect on the company's green human resources management. But green human resource management does not have a positive effect on environmental performance.