2.3. SHRM as a Resource for IOP to Promote Eco Sustainability
Natural resources though abundant are, nevertheless, restrained in some circumstances. Expatriates, social networks, virtual teams, and knowledge management practices have transcended these limitations [9]. By the same token, it is thought that IO-P together with SHRM can be used to curve out eco sustainable practices across borders amidst the natural resource constraint (geography, climate, culture and the law). Human resource practices include high involvement [10], high commitment [11], high performance work systems (HPWS)[12] that lead to high productivity at low costs which increase profits. HPWS are determined by employment security and extensive training. Therefore, how can one stimulate HPWS? According to Pferffer, granting workers more job control and responsibility would catapult a desire to increase value [13]. Employees can be mandated to come up with ideas of how their duties, products and services can be made more ecologically efficient. SHRM and IO-P are engaged in the selection and placement processes of potential employees. Industrial training, performance appraisal, team building, management development, job design are among the other intersections between the two different but mutually reinforcing disciplines as regards a well-functioning labor force. During the recruitment process, SHRM using IO-P principles/theories can focus on hiring prospective employees who reveal an impressive green resume that resonates with the firm’s pro environmental organizational climate. More still, IO-psychologists can think of avenues on how to inspire green change at the work place and private lives of the work force that highlights approaches that produce optimal job performance, improved job satisfaction and work morale while paying special attention to the safety and health of both employees and their families. In so doing, quality of life is optimized and concentration on greening job tasks is increased. In another vein, SHRM can measure performance, by evaluating how resources are obtained, used and any waste therefore can be fed into an information system that tracks environmental impacts. Work psychologists become indispensable during this stage of feedback more so when results are negative and employees fear employers’ backlash, loss of morale, confidence and any forfeiture of green rewards or incentives towards an eco-sustainable firm [14]. SHRM thrives on employee validity, reliability, and fairness a product of IO-P. Equally important, Human Resource Management as a discipline explores various measures of how it can contribute to the greening of the firms’ resources for improved and efficient environmental management. In addition to this, cognitive social theory has been adopted to elaborate the new Green HRM behaviors locked in by managerial green autographs via an interactive psychological framework that is drawn from IO-P [15]. Similarly, the relationship between eco sustainability and HRM furthermore illustrates the significance of organizational learning an aspect of IO-P in an effort to promote environmental sustainability.