An analysis of the dimensions of sustainable human resource management with an environmental approach in waste management organizations

Subject Areas : Waste Management

gohar pourahmadi ¹ , msnsoor Irandoost ^{2 *} , gamal adhami ³

1 - Ph.D. Student, Department of Public management, Azad University, Sanandaj, Iran.
2 - Associate Professor, Department of Public management, Azad University, Sanandaj, Iran. *(Corresponding Author)
3 - Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Azad University, Sanandaj, Iran.

Received: 2023-02-14 Accepted : 2023-08-23 Published : 2024-12-21

Keywords: sustainable human resource management, environment, waste management organization.,

Abstract :

Background and Objective: Sustainable human resource management is primarily related to the sustainability of the environment around organizations. This concept refers to the activities and theories of human resource management that help to reduce environmental damage and emphasizes the focus of encouraging actions to improve the environmental records of human resources in organizations.

Material and Methodology: The research method is a descriptive field type in terms of practical purpose and in terms of data collection and analysis. The mixed research approach and the statistical population in the qualitative field include 15 academic experts and ten organizational experts, and the quantitative part includes 125 employees of waste management organizations who were selected by random sampling. The qualitative part of the research used the Delphi method, and the quantitative part of the research used a questionnaire whose reliability was measured through Cronbach's alpha test. Hypotheses were tested through binomial test using spss software.

Findings: The findings of this research are in line with explaining the dimensions of sustainable human resource management with an emphasis on its environmental dimension, which currently most organizations' performance in the field of attracting and retaining human resources is done by considering the green dimensions of management and paying attention to the environmental dimension.

Discussion and Conclusion: The results of this research showed that the dimensions of sustainable human resources management include sustainable recruitment and selection, sustainable training and development, sustainable service compensation, sustainable performance evaluation and sustainable health and safety.

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