Green employee empowerment: a systematic literature review on state-of-art in green human resource management

Quality and Quantity

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 237-269

  Tariq, Sanober ^a   Jan, Farzand Ali ^a   Ahmad, Muhammad Shakil ^a  

^a Attock Campus   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Green employee empowerment; Green human resource management; Mediator; Sustainability; Systematic literature review

Indexed keywords

EID: 84953838892     PISSN: 00335177     EISSN: 15737845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11135-014-0146-0     Document Type: Article

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