Green Resource Management and Its Impact on the Organizational Sustainability Considering the Mediating Role of Environmental Performance and Empowerment

The present study aimed to explore the impact of green human resourcemanagement on corporate sustainability, with a focus on the function of environmentalperformance as a moderator and the perspective of sports organizations employees’empowerment in Fars province.

This research is applied in terms of purpose and correlational descriptivesurvey in terms of the data collection method. The statistical population consisted of 4047employees working at sports organizations in Fars province, and the sample size was 395utilizing the stratified sampling method, optimal allocation, and Cochran’s formula. Thestandard questionnaires of organizational resources management by Sakhavalkar and Tadani(2013), corporate sustainability by Karkolian et al., (2015), environmental performance byMadersgloo and Altanlar (2011), and Spritzer’s staff empowerment (1995) were employed toconduct the current study.

Sports management authorities approved the face and content validities of thequestionnaire prepared for this investigation. In addition, the Cronbach’s alpha methodwas used to calculate its reliability which were 96%, 46%, 68%, and 64% for green resourcemanagement, corporate sustainability, environmental performance, and empowerment,respectively. The data were statistically analyzed using structural equation modeling. Greenhuman resource standards affect the sustainability, according to the findings, with a pathcoefficient of 0.364. Environmental performance and empowerment were found to havea mediating function concerning green human resources and sustainability, with pathcoefficients of 0.476 and 0.434, respectively.

Considering green human resources by relying on environmental performanceand employee empowerment is one method of ensuring the sustainable development ofsports organizations.