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Impact of green human resource management on green creativity in pharmaceutical companies: mediation role of green mindset

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This research study analyzed the impact of green human resource management on the green creativity of the employees of the pharmaceutical companies of Lahore, Pakistan, with the mediating role of a green mindset and the moderating role of green concern. The convenience sampling technique was used to sample employees of pharmaceutical companies. The study was quantitative and cross-sectional in nature, and it used correlation and regression analysis to investigate the hypothesis. A sample of 226 employees (including managers, supervisors, and other staff members) was drawn from different pharmaceutical companies in Lahore, Pakistan. The results of the study indicate that green human resource management has a positive significant effect on the green creativity of employees. Findings further explain that the green mindset acts as a mediator and partially mediates the relationship between green human resource management and green creativity. Furthermore, this study examined the role of green concern as a moderator and the results explain the insignificant relation which shows that green concern does not moderate the relationship between the green mindset and green creativity of the employees of pharmaceutical companies in Lahore, Pakistan. The practical implications of this research study are also discussed.

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Abbreviations

GHRM:

green human resource management

GC:

green creativity

GM:

green mindset

GCN:

green concern

NIPS:

National Institute of Population Studies

SDG:

Sustainable Development Goals

UN:

United Nations

SCT:

social cognitive theory

HR:

human resource

Alpha:

Cronbach alpha

Max:

maximum

Min:

minimum

SD:

standard deviation

CR:

composite reliability

AVE:

average variance extracted

B :

beta coefficient

N :

number of respondents

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    Muhammad Haseeb Shakil, Rana Nadir Idrees, Sadaf Ehsan & Waseem Anwar

  2. Office of Research, Innovation, and Commercialization, The Superior University, Lahore, Pakistan

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Muhammad Haseeb Shakil: corresponding author, conceptualization, data curation, methodology, and writing—original draft. Rana Nadir Idrees: concept, data collection, data handling, methodology, and analysis. Sadaf Ehsan: refining the concept, data handling and data analysis, and writing and editing the final draft. Waseem Anwar: refining the writing and editing the final draft.

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Shakil, M.H., Idrees, R.N., Ehsan, S. et al. Impact of green human resource management on green creativity in pharmaceutical companies: mediation role of green mindset. Environ Sci Pollut Res 30, 88481–88494 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-023-28626-2

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