The Impact of Green Human Resource Management (GHRM) on Employees’ Environment-Friendly Behavior (EEFB): A Comparative Analysis between Public and Private Universities in Egypt

The interface of global environmental challenges and threats like depletion of natural resources, global warming, pollution and electricity shortage reflect a new era of environmental awareness to safeguard human needs and ensure environmental sustainability within the global higher education sector (Saeed et al., 2018). The aim of this study is to align with global challenges highlighting the application of GHRM practices (Green recruitment and selection, green training, Green performance management, Green pay and rewards and green involvement and relation) on Employees’ Environmentally Friendly Behavior (EFFB) in a comparative analysis between practices in public as well as private universities in Egypt. On a global level universities are in the center of promoting sustainability towards 2030 strategy however practically Egypt has been lagging in the implementation of sustainable practices of GHRM in the higher educational sector. So, the present study fills this gap by focusing on a comparative analysis between private and public sector universities in which (EFFB) can be assessed when adopting (GHRM) practices which represent an originality in theoretical level to fill the gap in literature. The research methodology is quantitative analysis using a questionnaire to collect data from the academic and administrative staff employees working in three Egyptian public and three private universities with a sample size of 421 from faculty, administrative staff and support personnel. The findings are directed towards an overall positive significance of GHRM practices on EEFB, however with a stronger impact in private universities than in public ones.