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Handbook of Sustainability Science and Research pp 489–511Cite as

Green Human Resource Management—Delivering High-Performance Human Resource Systems at Divine Word University Papua New Guinea

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Human resource department has been challenged to shift their role to include environmental management. This paper highlights the importance and benefits of practicing green human resource management in universities through the investigation of green human resource at a case site Divine Word University Papua New Guinea. The study of green human resource management has been limited to corporate organizations and not educational institutions. The study addresses Green HRM from an institutional perspective. This study engaged mixed methods using case study as the strategy. A vast majority of DWU staff and students have expressed the need for their institution to do more on sustainability education. The findings from the study on Green Human Resource Management (GHRM) at Divine Word University revealed that departments are not fully integrated like the Egg of sustainability and well-being. This paper has added a new insight to the body of knowledge that greening in a university and green human resource management in organizations and application of green human resource management at an institution are necessary and important to environmental sustainability.

A thesis submitted for the degree of Master of Research Methodology, Divine Word University Madang.

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    Zainab Olabisi Tairu

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Tairu, Z.O. (2018). Green Human Resource Management—Delivering High-Performance Human Resource Systems at Divine Word University Papua New Guinea. In: Leal Filho, W. (eds) Handbook of Sustainability Science and Research. World Sustainability Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63007-6_30

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