Green Human Resource Management and Environmental Sustainability: A Bibliometric Analysis

Rapid industrialization and excessive utilization of Natural Resources have risen the problem of global warming. Every Discipline of studies are focusing to curb the problem of climate changes, from science to humanities, the focus of studies related to utilization of resources in sustainable way has increased. In the same way Human Resource Management also focusing on new paradigm of Human Resource Management which would contribute to Environmental Management, this new Paradigm is Known as Green Human Resource Management. Purpose of the study is to understand the concept of Green Human Resource Management Practices, annual scientific production, most cited authors, most important Journals and Various collaborations. Although it seems to be new concept but studies related to this perspective can be related to 1989 or before this duration. Scopus and Web of Science are considered as most reliable source of data for any scientific study, therefore in this research Paper we have taken Database of Scopus for the duration of 1989-2025. Data is collected by searching key words, Green Human Resource Management (GHRM), Employees Green Behavior (EGB) and Environmental Sustainability by restricting the result to Management, Commerce and Accounting. In this paper we focused Various aspects of Bibliometric information, such as Number of Publication per years, Most Cited Authors and top most journals. In this paper we also focused on social structure and country collaboration map of the study field. In this study we found that Green Human Resource Management Practices is a multidisciplinary field of knowledge, Environmental sustainability was previously focused through collective action but now, with the help of Green Human Resource Management Practices focuses directly on employees to tackle the problem of Environmental issues. Green Human Resource Management practices and Human Resource Management Practices are two broad dimensions of this study focusing on environmental sustainability and Innovations respectively. In this study we also found that the number of publications has slightly increases in last 10 years showing increasing interest of scholars and researchers in this field. Study showed the relevant Journals, authors and yearly publication of papers which will definitely help the researchers to deep dive into the field of Green Human Resource Management Practices and understand the concept in more relevant way. Study also revealed that the publication in year 2025 declined subsequently which may be due to late publications of papers. Conclusion- The study concludes that GHRM plays a crucial role in aligning organizational strategies with sustainability goals and is emerging as an important area of research and practice. The data provided does not include data of whole 12 months of 2025 which may be worked by other researchers to eliminate such limitations of this study.