Abstract

Despite the plethora of explications on the direct and indirect impacts of green people management practices on different dimensions of individual and organizational performance and sustainability, a holistic model demonstrating constituent aspects and impacts of such sustainability on organizational, individual and team performance is missing. The objective of this study is to address this gap/void, through a review of 127 papers on green human resource management (GHRM) following a systematic literature review approach. Based on the systematic review, this study used thematic analysis which identified twenty-four disparate people and organizational aspects and grouped the mostly used ones into five theoretical lenses including AMO= Ability Motivation Opportunity, RBV=Resource Based View, SHT= Stakeholder Theory, SET=Social Exchange Theory, and SIT= Social Identity Theory. These five sets of results were used to develop the first-of-its-kind holistic framework showing how GHRM works in a cyclical process to fill the missing gap on how to sustainably improve individual, group, and organizational performance for multiple organizational stakeholders. Second, this article contributes theoretically to Social Engagement and Social Identity Theories, thereby extending Deci and Ryan’s Organismic Integration Theories’ and ‘Self-Determination’ to show how GHRM practices can be implemented for organizations’ performance sustainably. Third, this study also proposed a new and more sustainable bottom line for business organizations seeking to improve their performance and this contribution is referred to as Sustainable GHRM-Organisational Performance (SGHRM-OrgP). Finally, this study proposes a research agenda highlighting where more research areas are needed. Despite the potentials that such a model offers for organizational sustainability, the authors recognise the next research step of applying its constituent parts in, practically optimizing performance.