Green HRM in the Global South: Establishing Sustainability, Responsible Transformations, and Resilient Organizational Development

Description

Green HRM (GHRM) integrates environmental responsibility into HR practices and procedures, enabling organizations to achieve sustainability goals while transforming employees into sustainability advocates. However, most GHRM research originates from the Global North, leaving implementation in the Global South—Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East—insufficiently studied and scattered across specific contexts.

This gap in scholarship risks producing GHRM frameworks disconnected from the socioeconomic and institutional realities of Global South countries. The special issue seeks to address this by inviting conceptual papers, empirical research, and scholarly discussions that examine how GHRM can advance sustainability, social justice, and economic stability in resource-constrained environments while exploring the unique obstacles and opportunities for GHRM adoption in Global South organizations.

Potential topics

• Contextualizing GHRM in the Global South (i.e. the adoption of GHRM, implementation barriers, contribution to sustainability)
• GHRM and work outcomes in the Global South (i.e. the effect of GHRM on green and non-green individual and organizational outcomes)
• How GHRM can enhance staff well-being in informal staffing settings (i.e. the relationship between GHRM and workplace happiness, job security, and inclusive practices of staffing, etc.)
• GHRM in sector-specific context in the Global South (i.e. manufacturing, IT, higher education, hospitality, etc.)
• National perspectives of GHRM in the Global South (i.e. how GHRM can facilitate effective economic transitions given the frequent scarcity of the resources and climate vulnerability)
• Leadership, organizational culture, management commitment to sustainable practices (how the aforementioned factors can shape GHRM practices in contexts where pro-environmental values may be nascent)
• GHRM and Organizational Resilience in the Global South (i.e. why and how GHRM can serve as a tool that contributes to organizational resilience in the light of environmental and operational disruptions)
• The role of AI and digital transformation in enabling GHRM in the Global South
• Success stories and case studies of organizations that pioneered the implementation of GHRM in the Global South