The increasing urgency of ensuring sustainability has intensified interest in sustainability research in recent years. Accordingly, this study examines the various components of sustainable performance, with green human resource management serving as a predictor. It also analyzes the mediating roles of green innovation and green intellectual capital. The ability, motivation and opportunity theory is the primary theoretical framework employed.
Data were collected from 403 managers and human resource managers in Ghana’s manufacturing, mining and transportation sectors and analyzed using structural equation modeling.
The findings supported all hypotheses. Green human resource management positively affects environmental, economic and social performance. Green intellectual capital and green innovation also partially mediated all the relationships.
Actionable insights as practical contributions are made for managers and policymakers, such as embedding green human resource management and sustainability into the organizational strategic framework.
The study contributes to the literature by establishing the role of green innovation and intellectual capital in sustainability and identifying the specific effects of green human resource management on each component of sustainable performance.
