The Effect of Green Human Resource Management on Green Innovation with the Moderating Role of Green Intellectual Capital

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of green human resource management on green innovation with the moderating role of green intellectual capital. This research is descriptive-survey in terms of method and applied in terms of purpose. The statistical population consisted of selected knowledge-based companies and a questionnaire was used to collect data and the structural equation method was used to analyze the research hypotheses. Also, SPSS and Smart PLS softwares were used to analyze the collected data. The results show that green human resource management has a direct and significant positive effect on green innovation as well as the components of this variable. Moreover, the moderating role of green intellectual capital in the relationship between green human resource management and green innovation was confirmed. Another result was that in examining the moderating role of components, only green human capital has moderated the relationship between green human resource management and green innovation. The results of this study show that by improving green human resource management, steps can be taken to develop green innovation of knowledge-based companies, which can be increased by increasing the potential of green intellectual capital of these companies.