Author: Asrarudin

Doi: 10.26480/mjhrm.01.2026.10.18

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This paper investigates the impact of effective leadership on sustainable performance of higher education in Indonesia based on main indicators-IKU mediated green human resource management. The collected data from 150 respondents of five universities in Indonesia. Data then analysed with Partial Least Square (PLS￾SEM). The findings revealed that effective leadership does not have direct effect on sustainable performance. Effective leadership has significant direct impact on green human resource management. Green human resource management has a significant direct impact on sustainable performance. This depicts that the better the green behaviour of human resource, the better the sustainable performance of higher education. And effective leadership has a significant indirect impact on sustainable performance through green human resource management. This result provides implication that positive changes in leadership effectiveness have an impact on green human resource management in an effort to shape green conduct of human resource. Additionally, leadership effectiveness in implementing policies does not directly improve higher education performance but through changes in attitudes and behaviour of human resources.