Explanation and Evaluation of the Green Human Resource Management Practices Based on Perspective AMO In Kerman Coal Mines Company : Combined approach

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1 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Public Administration, Human Resource Management, Faculty of Literature and Human Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Kerman Branch, Kerman, Iran

2 Corresponding author: Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Islamic Azad University, Kerman Branch, Kerman, Iran.

3 Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Islamic Azad University, Kerman Branch, Kerman, Iran.

4 Associate Professor, Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Islamic Azad University, Kerman Branch, Kerman, Iran

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to explain and evaluate green human resource management practices based on the AMO model in Kerman Coal Mines Company. This research is applied and part of combined research (qualitative-quantitative). In the qualitative section, by conducting 14 semi-structured interviews and using the theme analysis method, the obtained data were reviewed and the themes were divided into three categories according to AMO model: green ability, green motivation, and Providing Green opportunities. In the quantitative part, a questionnaire was distributed based on the interviews in accordance with the design model and after assessing the validity and reliability of the questionnaires. The statistical population was 600 people and the sample size was 234 people based on the Georgian and Morgan table. Analysis of research data at the level of descriptive statistics was performed using SPSS23 software and structural equation modeling method using AMOS23 software. The results of the structural equation model confirmed the model. The results of the study showed that among the three components "green motivation" with the highest path coefficient and "green ability" with the lowest path coefficient and among the seventeen sub-components, "green education and development" with the highest path coefficient and "green benefits and services" They explain the model with the lowest path coefficient. Therefore, to change the attitude of employees in the field of environment and provide a sustainable organization, the most important strategy of the Coal Mines Company is training and increasing the environmental knowledge of employees.

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Journal of Research in Human Resources Management
Volume 14, Issue 3 - Serial Number 49
No. 49, Autumn Quarterly
September 2022
Pages 63-131

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  • Receive Date: 25 January 2022
  • Revise Date: 11 April 2022
  • Accept Date: 17 April 2022

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