The purpose of this study is to explore the double-edged sword effect of green human resource management (GHRM) on the existence of employees’ organizational citizenship behavior for the environment (OCBE). Based on conservation of resources theory, this study considers the mediating roles of job insecurity and environmental awareness in the dual effects of GHRM on OCBE.
The authors collected 478 valid data from 17 Chinese luxury hotels (including 4-star and 5-star hotels) to test the hypotheses. The data were analyzed through structural equation modeling.
Based on the above research method, the authors find that there are dual effects between GHRM and OCBE, in which GHRM negatively influences OCBE through the mediator of job insecurity, while GHRM positively influences OCBE through the mediator of environmental awareness, and organizational trust moderates the dual effects.
The results of this study provide hotel managers with a new perspective on GHRM practices, highlighting GHRM’s dual effects on employees’ perceptions, which will contribute to greater OCBE, and provide opinion that employees’ organizational trust can enhance the management effectiveness of GHRM.
This study fills the gap of the negative impact of GHRM and enriches the path of GHRM’s influence on employee behavior, especially by applying for the first time the concept of job insecurity which helped to discover the dark side behind the positive impact of GHRM.
