Green Human Resource Management (GHRM): A Strategic Approach to Sustainability and Employee Engagement

In light of the rapid environmental changes and global pressures to achieve sustainable development, the concept of Green Human Resource Management (GHRM) has emerged as a strategic tool to enhance organizational performance and achieve environmental and social goals. This study aims to analyze the relationship between GHRM practices on one hand, and the level of employee engagement and the achievement of institutional sustainability on the other. A descriptive quantitative approach was used, through developing a questionnaire distributed to a sample of employees in industrial and commercial institutions, and the data were analyzed using advanced statistical techniques such as SPSS, regression analysis, and Pearson correlation coefficient. The results showed that the level of application of GHRM practices in the Iraqi institutions under study was relatively high, particularly in the areas of environmental training and motivation. It was also found that there is a strong positive statistically significant relationship between the adoption of GHRM practices and the increase in employee engagement in environmental activities, in addition to a direct positive impact of GHRM on institutional sustainability indicators (environmental, economic, social). The study concluded that GHRM is not limited to being a contemporary managerial approach, but rather it is a tool for organizational change and individual motivation, and institutions should adopt it as part of their sustainable strategies. The study recommended the necessity of integrating the environmental dimension into all human resource activities and developing an organizational culture that encourages innovation and environmental responsibility in the Arab work environment.