Intellectual Structure of Green Human Resource Management and Environmental Self-Efficacy: Mapping Research Trends

Abstract

The analysis is focused on three aims: first, analyzing publishing trends and geographical representation, detecting emerging themes, and questioning the intellectual structure and future of the field. Using a bibliometric method, the study retrieved and analyzed 142 papers in the Scopus database with the support of VOS viewer and BiblioMagika. The results indicate that there has been a growing academic interest in GHRM and ESE, especially since 2020. The Asian countries, especially Pakistan, Malaysia, and China, have made noticeable contributions. Two main thematic groups were identified: one of the strategic constructs, sustainability, corporate social responsibility, and innovation, and the other of the psychological constructs, green behavior, self-efficacy, and human resource practices. The discussion explains why ESE is a crucial psychological process in GHRM that links HR policies and sustainable employee conduct. The implications of the study's findings are theoretically synthesized, enhancing GHRM and the ESE models by creating sustainability-based labor structures. The study can guide managers in developing GHRM interventions that will foster pro-environmental cultures. Overall, the study contributes to conceptual clarity by combining behavioral science with organizational sustainability, which implies a conscious shift toward employee-centric environmental change.