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Green Human Resource Management and Organisational Sustainability in Raw Materials Research and Development Council, Southwest Zone, Nigeria
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Green Human Resource Management and Organisational Sustainability in Raw Materials Research and Development Council, Southwest Zone, Nigeria

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Authors

IFEKWEM Nkiruka E. 1; BELLO Bashiru Akande 2; OLADEINDE, Olusegun 3; ABIOLA Cecilia Oluyemi 4; OLASUPO Margaret Odunayo 5; AJAYI Olumide Oluwatoyin 6

Business Administration Department, College of Management Sciences, Bells University of Technology, Nigeria.

1 [email protected], 2 [email protected], 3 [email protected], 4 [email protected], 5 [email protected], 6 [email protected].

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Abstract

Research Purpose: This study examined green human resource management and organisational sustainability in raw materials research and development council, southwest, Nigeria. 

Methodology: The study adopted the social exchange theory and stakeholders’ theory respectively. The study employed a descriptive research design with a sample size of (160) respondents from raw materials research and development council, southwest, Nigeria, using a structured questionnaire. The stratified and simple random sampling procedure was employed in selecting respondents for the study. Data gathered were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistical analyses.

Findings: The level of green recruitment and selection positively have significant relationship with economic sustainability with (0.811: p= 0.000<0.05); green training and development was found to have significant relationship with environmental sustainability with (0.703: p= 0.000<0.05) and green compensation and reward system significantly share a relationship with social sustainability with (0.913: p= 0.000<0.05. 

Conclusion: Organisations who practice green ideology using the three functions of HR such as green recruitment and selection, green training and development and green compensation and reward system are most likely to attract more and better applicants than those who do not. As a result, management of the Raw Materials Research and Development Council should employ the usage of green recruitment and selection, green training and development, green compensation and reward practices, green career management development for enhancing economic, environmental and social sustainability.

Key words: Green recruitment, green training and development, green compensation, reward system and organisational sustainability.

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