*Article* **Linking Green Human Resource Practices and Environmental Economics Performance: The Role of Green Economic Organizational Culture and Green Psychological Climate**

**Syed Mehmood Ali Shah 1, Yang Jiang 1,\*, Hao Wu 1,\*, Zahoor Ahmed 2,3, Irfan Ullah <sup>2</sup> and Tomiwa Sunday Adebayo 4,5**


**Citation:** Shah, S.M.A.; Jiang, Y.; Wu, H.; Ahmed, Z.; Ullah, I.; Adebayo, T.S. Linking Green Human Resource Practices and Environmental Economics Performance: The Role of Green Economic Organizational Culture and Green Psychological Climate. *Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health* **2021**, *18*, 10953. https:// doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182010953

Academic Editors: Pasquale Avino, Massimiliano Errico, Aristide Giuliano and Hamid Salehi

Received: 28 August 2021 Accepted: 12 October 2021 Published: 18 October 2021

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**Abstract:** An eco-friendly environment with green strategies can help to achieve better environmental performance. However, literature on the relationship between green human resource management practices (GHRMP) and sustainable environmental efficiency (SEF) is limited. Moreover, there is limited knowledge about the factors that could mediate the relationship between GHRMP and SEF. Therefore, the present study examines the impact of green human resource management practices mediating through green psychological climate (GPC) and green organizational culture (GOC) for better environmental efficacy. For this purpose, the primary data on variables are collected by using structured assessment tools and analyzed through regression models. Unlike previous studies, this study adopts a mediation model and unfolds not only the role of green human resource practices in psychological climate and green organizational culture but also clarifies the mediating role of GPC and GOC in sustainable environmental efficiency. The findings unfolded that ecological factors such as green psychological climate, green organizational culture, and sustainable environmental efficiency are positively affected by green human resources management. In addition, green organizational culture and green psychological climate positively mediate the relationship between GHRMP and SEF. This study recommends adopting green human resource management strategies and increasing technical innovations to improve sustainability and economic performance.

**Keywords:** human resource management (HRM); green psychological climate (GPC); green organizational culture (GOC); environmental concerns; economic performance
