Green Human Resource Management Practices and Employee Engagement: Empirical Evidence from RMG sector in Bangladesh

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between green HRM practices and employee behavior namely employee engagement in ready-made garment (RMG) industry, Bangladesh, an under-researched area. Further, this paper also proposes the research framework under the tenet of resource-based view (RBV) theory by identifying research gaps. The framework is proposed for the direct influence of green HRM factors on employees’ workplace behavior. Self-administered questionnaire is used to collect the data from non-managerial employees working in RMG sector of Bangladesh. This study uses partial least squares method to analyze the data. Results of this study show that ‘green employee participation’ and ‘green training and development’ are statistically significant to employee engagement. These results suggests that green HRM practices are important resources to make the employees engage towards their jobs which reflects the implication of RBV to examine green HRM-employee engagement relationship.