dc.contributor.author |
LANGAT, BERNARD |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2017-12-21T11:52:47Z |
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dc.date.available |
2017-12-21T11:52:47Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2017-12-21 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
LANGAT,2017 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/3519 |
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dc.description |
A RESEARCH PROJECT SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF
ENTREPRENEURSHIP, PROCUREMENT AND MANAGEMENT IN
PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD
OF MASTERS OF SCIENCE DEGREE IN HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT OF JOMO KENYATTA UNIVERSITY OF
AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY |
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dc.description.abstract |
Green management initiatives have become an important factor in forward thinking
businesses around the world. Researchers argued that employees must be inspired,
empowered and environmentally aware of greening in order to carry out green
management initiatives. Corporate green management requires a high level of
technical and management skills in employees since the company will develop
innovation focused environmental initiatives and programmes that have significant
managerial implications. There is thus a growing need for the integration of
environmental management into Human Resource Management through Green
Human Resource Management practices. Green Human Resource is the use of Human
Resource Management policies to promote sustainable use of resources with business
organizations and more generally, promotes the course of environmental
sustainability. The objective of the study was to establish the influences of green
human resource management practices on environmental sustainability in Kenya.
Green Human Resource Management theories and models were used to show the
importance of Green Human Resource Management concerns that will impact on
environmental management and sustainability and to understand the unique features
of Human Resource managers, decisions and behaviours which are central to Green
Human Resource Management. The study specifically looked at the effects of selected
Green Human Resource Management practices and how they influence the overall
organizational environmental sustainability. The study employed a descriptive
research design specifically for a case study of Kenyatta University. The target
population was 2400 employees of Kenyatta University from which a sample of 96
employees was selected. The data was exclusively gathered from the questionnaire as
the research instrument. The collected data was summarized and analyzed using both
descriptive and inferential analysis and then presented in frequency distribution tables
and figures. Males made the majority of the participants at 64% while the females
formed 36% the results of the study indicated that more non-teaching staff;
administrators (35%) clerks (32.5%) participated in the research than teaching staff.
The participants’ application for employment at Kenyatta University was not based on
green issues (mean 2.31, disagreed 52.5%). Green/environmental performance
indicators were not adequately included in performance management and appraisals
systems (mean 3.31). There were benefits in performance management system for
compliance/ meeting the green/environmental management and sustainability goals
(mean 3.93). The university empowered and encouraged the employees to make
suggestions and contributions on environmental improvement (46.3%).Many of the
respondents were aware of Environmental sustainability and National Environmental
Management Authority policies and regulations compared to Green Human Resource
Management. Further research is necessary as the findings were based on a relatively
small sample that may have influenced the nature of the results that were obtained.
Further, to develop staff for environmental sustainability and management,
widespread use of environmental training, developing environmental knowledge
bases and developing pro-environment managers and leaders of the future should be
put in the University system. |
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dc.description.sponsorship |
Dr. Josphat Kwasira ……………………… ………………………
Lecturer, JKUAT |
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dc.language.iso |
en |
en_US |
dc.publisher |
COHRED - JKUAT |
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dc.subject |
HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT |
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dc.subject |
HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES ON ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY |
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dc.title |
INFLUENCES OF GREEN HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES ON ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY AT KENYATTA UNIVERSITY, KENYA |
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dc.type |
Thesis |
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