Green HRM practices and corporate sustainability performance

Purpose: The existing literature indicates that the ultimate purpose of green human resource management (GHRM) practices is to enhance sustainable corporate performance by shaping employees’ green behaviors. In this vein, we argue that green organizational culture and employee existing pro-environmental behaviors are the important factors or channels through which GHRM practices shape green employee behaviors for sustainable corporate performance. Consequently, we draw on the ability, motivation, and opportunity (AMO) framework to examine how firms’ GHRM practices indirectly shape employee green behavior for sustainable corporate performance by cultivating and reinforcing green organizational culture under the boundary condition of high employee pro-environmental behavior. Design/methodology/approach: This study uses multi-source, dyadic, and time-lagged data collected from green HR managers and employees in 242 ISO-14001-certified green firms in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The study applies structural equation modeling through LISREL 12 software for testing of hypotheses. Findings: The findings support the postulation that GHRM practices, directly and indirectly, shape employee green behaviors for sustainable performance. GHRM practices indirectly enhance employee green behaviors for sustainable performance by cultivating and fostering the green organizational culture in the presence of high pro-environmental behavior. Practical implications: This study outlines theoretical and practical implications on how HRM managers require an established green organizational culture and employee pro-environmental behaviors to effectively direct GHRM for enhanced sustainable corporate performance. HRM managers should make use of appropriate interventions, including but not limited to GHRM practices, to foster a green organizational culture and employee pro-environmental behaviors. Originality/value: This is an original study that outlines the importance of alignment between Green HRM practices and employee pro-environmental behaviors towards shaping green organizational culture and employee behaviors for corporate sustainability. The study demonstrates how GHRM practices enhance sustainable corporate performance through sequential mediations of green organizational culture and employee green behaviors, and under the boundary condition of pro-environmental behavior

Psychological and Social Suffering of Another Generation of Palestinian Children Living Under Occupation: An Urgent Call to Advocate [Viewpoint]

Alastair Ager - ORCID: 0000-0002-9474-3563 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9474-3563https://www.hhrjournal.org/2024/05/psychological-and-social-suffering-of-another-generation-of-palestinian-children-living-under-occupation-an-urgent-call-to-advocate/26pubpub

Attitudes to climate change

We are conducting a systematic review of predictors of attitudes toward climate change, taking a socioecological approach. This project is funded by the Environmental Protection Agency in Ireland

Bridging the Gap: The Moderating Roles of Institutional Quality and Compliance on the Link between CSR and Financial Performance

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is widely acknowledged to have a significant impact on firm's financial performance, but it is yet ambiguous how institutional, cultural and national factors influence this relationship in corruption contexts. Therefore, institutional mechanisms and perceived corruption should not be considered in isolation, as this would jeopardize the company's ability to act in a socially responsible manner. Obtaining an institutional approach of corruption and using self-administered survey data collected from 632 Pakistani firms operating in manufacturing and service sectors, we investigated the impact of CSR, institutional quality and law enforcement (IQLE), and internal compliance and ethical management (ICEM) on firm financial performance. Our results found that IQLE negatively moderates and weakened the positive relationship between CSR and firm financial performance. Additionally, we discover that ICEM positively moderates and strengthened the direct relationship between CSR and financial performance. We show that improving compliance and ethics management, CSR has the potential to enhance financial performance. \textcopyright 2023 Elsevier Lt

Bridging the gap: The moderating roles of institutional quality and compliance on the link between CSR and financial performance

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is widely acknowledged to have a significant impact on firm’s financial performance, but it is yet ambiguous how institutional, cultural and national factors influence this relationship in corruption contexts. Therefore, institutional mechanisms and perceived corruption should not be considered in isolation, as this would jeopardize the company’s ability to act in a socially responsible manner. Obtaining an institutional approach of corruption and using self-administered survey data collected from 632 Pakistani firms operating in manufacturing and service sectors, we investigated the impact of CSR, institutional quality and law enforcement (IQLE), and internal compliance and ethical management (ICEM) on firm financial performance. Our results found that IQLE negatively moderates and weakened the positive relationship between CSR and firm financial performance. Additionally, we discover that ICEM positively moderates and strengthened the direct relationship between CSR and financial performance. We show that improving compliance and ethics management, CSR has the potential to enhance financial performance

Loss of Cajal Bodies in Motor Neurons from patients with novel mutations in VRK1

International audienceDistal hereditary motor neuropathies (dHMNs) are a heterogeneous group of diseases, resembling Charcot-Marie-Tooth syndromes, but characterized by an exclusive involvement of the motor part of the peripheral nervous system. Here, we describe two new compound heterozygous mutations in VRK1, the vaccinia-related kinase 1 gene, in two siblings from a Lebanese family, affected with dHMN associated with upper motor neurons (MNs) signs. The mutations lead to severely reduced levels of VRK1 by impairing its stability, and to a shift of nuclear VRK1 to cytoplasm. Depletion of VRK1 from the nucleus alters the dynamics of coilin, a phosphorylation target of VRK1, by reducing its stability through increased proteasomal degradation. In human-induced pluripotent stem cell-derived MNs from patients, we demonstrate that this drop in VRK1 levels leads to Cajal bodies (CBs) disassembly and to defects in neurite outgrowth and branching. Mutations in VRK1 have been previously reported in several neurological diseases affecting lower or both upper and lower MNs. Here, we describe a new phenotype linked to VRK1 mutations, presenting as a classical slowly progressive motor neuropathy, beginning in the second decade of life, with associated upper MN signs. We provide, for the first time, evidence for a role of VRK1 in regulating CB assembly in MNs. The observed MN defects are consistent with a length dependent axonopathy affecting lower and upper MNs, and we propose that diseases due to mutations in VRK1 should be grouped under a unique entity named `VRK1-related motor neuron disease'

A 20-year Clinical and Genetic Neuromuscular Cohort Analysis in Lebanon: An International Effort

International audienceBackground:Clinical and molecular data on the occurrence and frequency of inherited neuromuscular disorders (NMD) in the Lebanese population is scarce.Objective:This study aims to provide a retrospective overview of hereditary NMDs based on our clinical consultations in Lebanon.Methods:Clinical and molecular data of patients referred to a multi-disciplinary consultation for neuromuscular disorders over a 20-year period (1999–2019) was reviewed.Results:A total of 506 patients were diagnosed with 62 different disorders encompassing 10 classes of NMDs. 103 variants in 49 genes were identified. In this cohort, 81.4% of patients were diagnosed with motor neuron diseases and muscular dystrophies, with almost half of these described with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) (40.3% of patients). We estimate a high SMA incidence of 1 in 7,500 births in Lebanon. Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy were the second most frequently diagnosed NMDs (17% of patients). These disorders were associated with the highest number of variants (39) identified in this study. A highly heterogeneous presentation of Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy and Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease was notably identified. The least common disorders (5.5% of patients) involved congenital, metabolic, and mitochondrial myopathies, congenital myasthenic syndromes, and myotonic dystrophies. A review of the literature for selected NMDs in Lebanon is provided.Conclusions:Our study indicates a high prevalence and underreporting of heterogeneous forms of NMDs in Lebanon- a major challenge with many novel NMD treatments in the pipeline. This report calls for a regional NMD patient registry