Scholarly Journal of Business Administration Vol. 11(1), pp. 10-17, January 2022
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Full-Length Research Paper
Green Training/Development and Non-Financial
Performance of Deposit Money Banks in South-West,
Nigeria
Sule, Olatunji Eniola** and Alagah, D. Adekemi
Management Department University of Port Harcourt Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Received: 20 December, 2021, Accepted: 6 January, 2022, Published: 18 January, 2022
The study investigated the relationship between green training/development and non-financial corporate
performance in deposit money banks of South-West, Nigeria. Survey design was used. The study
population was the managerial staff of deposit money banks in the South-West of Nigeria with 330 as
the sample size. Simple random sampling technique was applied. Structural Equation Modelling - AMOS
was used in testing the three (3) hypotheses. The findings revealed that there is a relationship between
green training/development and non-financial corporate performance with the estimate (ꞵ) between .136
and .969 in all the three (3) hypotheses. Hence, the study recommended that green training/development
should not be handled with levity as it determines what happen to the environment and everything
within the environment in the future and this could be easily achieved with seriousness on employee
satisfaction, operational efficiency, and innovation.
Keywords: Green training/development, Non-financial performance, Employee satisfaction, Operational
efficiency, Innovation.
INTRODUCTION
The word performance came into the limelight at the
middle of the 19
th
century during a sport competition and
by 20
th
century, it has become a prominent word in
organisations and other places of human endeavours
(Ion & Criveanu, 2016). However, if the outcome, result
or end-product of human effort to and within an
organisation is referred to as contribution of such
individual, then, the totality of each individual worker‟s
contribution could be described as performance. Stephen
and Mary (2002) as quoted in Charles (2015) described
performance to be the accumulated final results that
arises from all the job procedures, methods and events.
Jenatabadi (2015) once argued that Scholars have not
been able to come up with any operational definition for
the concept called performance as such any description
given by anyone must surely be opposed.
Green human resource management came into
limelight in 1990s according to Krithika,
*Corresponding author email: olasem2005@yahoo.com
DivyaPriyadharshini and GokulaPriya (2019) but its‟
acceptance peaked into the millennium. This is as a
result of ozone layer depletion which the entire world
assumed the solution was in applying greening as a
revolution (Sule & Onuoha, 2020). Greening denotes
being environmental friendly with their doing. This gave
rise to making human resource management practices to
be environmental friendly code-named Green Human
Resource Management Practices (GHRMP). That is,
practices like recruitment/selection, training/development,
performance management, employee involvement,
performance appraisal, employee
empowerment/engagement, reward systems and others
should be done to portray environmental friendliness.
It was further asserted by Amah (2014) that the big
concerns in our banking sectors remains how transparent
and ethical banks and bankers are; reasons being that,
any depreciation in the standards – ethical and
transparency – usually manifests in different forms like
non-compliance with banking rules and regulations,
unethical professional conduct, fraudulent practices,
appetite for risk that are beyond the lender‟s control, for