The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Green Human Resource Management: Mediating Effect of Employee Empowerment

Abstract

Social Responsibility is inaugurating with a vigorous competitive establishment.As the world becomes barrier-free and the Industry movements around the world have been moving towards environment friendly and creating goods that support the ecology of the earth. In this regard, the autonomous power given to employees helps to meet the business objectives. There is a growing societal pressure on corporations to become more competitive and mitigate environmental influence by encouraging endurable end products in their business operations. The financial position of a company is not a basic surety for the successful outcome, now this conventional viewpoint is also not consistent with the current social demands. To fulfill this gap themenu-script scrutinizes the affinity between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Employee Empowerment (EE), and Green Human Resource Management (GHRM) in SMEs of Pakistan.The good organization produced by GHRM can help to cut operating costs and help the industry experts to understand their Corporate Social Responsibility in an enriched manner. A quantitative approach is adopted to conduct the survey. Through the stratified sampling technique, data was collected from the surgical, sports, and leather goods manufacturing companies. For result analysis, SPSS and Partial Least Square Method were used. Our study reveals that CSR has an optimistic impact on GHRM through EE. Moreover, this study augments realistic (empirical) evidence on CSR, EE, and GHRM. Theoretical and implications for managers are discussed.