Virtual hiring : an effective green human resource management practice

Abstract

Attracting high-quality employees is a critical human resource concern in the 'battle for talent. Virtual Hiring by the organization is a step towards sustainability by going paperless. Greening the activities involved in getting people into an organization is covered under the Green HRM. This Research paper attempts to establish an Integrated Model of the virtual Hiring mode, its Predictor and Outcome variables. To evaluate the relation between Perceived Usefulness (PU) and Perceived ease of use (PEU) over the virtual mode of Hiring (VMH) and the further impact of the Virtual Mode of hiring as Green HR Practice on Cost-effectiveness, Geographical Outreach and Environment/ Health benefits. Research Methodology- The study employed an adapted questionnaire to gather data from 266 respondents and used Partial Least Square (PLS) Structural Equational Modelling in SmartPLS software version 3.3.2 to conduct empirical analysis. To sum up, this study developed a new model using some variables of Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) to investigate the mechanism by which the Virtual mode of Hiring as Green HR practice impacts the outcome variables of this study. There found the significant positive impact of virtual Hiring on Cost Effectiveness, Geographical Outreach and Environment/ Health Benefits.