The increasing emphasis on environmental sustainability in organizations has underscored the need to understand how human resource practices shape employee environmental behaviors and perceptions. This scoping review examines the relationship between Green Human Resource Management (GHRM) practices and Green Psychological Climate (GPC), analyzing their combined impact on organizational environmental outcomes through the Abilities–Motivation–Opportunities (AMO) framework. Following PRISMA-P guidelines, 16 empirical studies published between 2017 and 2024 were systematically reviewed. Findings reveal strong positive associations between GHRM and GPC, with green pay and rewards, performance management, and training emerging as key drivers. GPC acts as a critical mediating mechanism, facilitating the translation of GHRM initiatives into enhanced environmental performance and voluntary green behaviors. The effectiveness of these relationships is influenced by organizational factors (e.g., ethical leadership, green culture) and individual characteristics (e.g., environmental sensitivity, age). Through the AMO lens, the results suggest that an integrated GHRM system that enhances employees’ abilities, motivation, and opportunities creates synergistic effects, fostering a sustainability-oriented climate and reinforcing pro-environmental behaviors. These findings contribute to the theoretical understanding of sustainability-oriented HRM while offering practical insights for organizations seeking to align human resource practices with environmental objectives.

This paper investigates the concept of “populist attitudes” resulting from the emotional symbolization of the political world. While contemporary scholars link populism to individual attitudes or socio-economic shifts, we argue that understanding populism’s underlying dynamics offers a more nuanced perspective. Addressing these emotional symbolizations sheds light on how populist attitudes and structural conditions become salient and lead to a global rise. Using data from a nationally representative Italian survey, we studied the interaction between populist attitudes and three concepts often associated with populism, which we ascribed to the domain of the emotional symbolizations of the political world: alienation, powerlessness, and protest voting. Alienation reflects passive estrangement from politics, while powerlessness fuels citizens’ potential resentment, leading to protest voting as a reaction. By emphasizing the relationship between citizens and politics, this study contributes to a deeper understanding of the socio-cultural and psychological drivers of populist attitudes, disentangling the concept of “populism” from the risk of reified stances. We underscore that approaching this phenomenon within its broader dynamic can provide an innovative perspective. We call for further contextual approaches to enhance theoretical insights and inform practical strategies to address populism’s disruptive effects.

Contemporary societies are undergoing rapid and profound transformations—economic, technological, social, and environmental—increasingly challenging the capacity of public governance to effectively manage social and structural complexity. In response, new governance paradigms promoting inclusive and participatory approaches are emerging with the aim of increasing the capability of public policy-making to effectively grasp social demands. This paper aims to foster the potential synergies between participatory policy-making and semiotic psychology, building on the constructivist and psychoanalytical frameworks. Moving beyond the traditional, medicalized, and normalizing stances characterizing mainstream psychological approaches, we advocate for a framework capable of addressing the symbolic and emotional foundations of the social reality driving individual and collective behaviors. This is expected to foster the debate about the intersection between psychology and public policy-making, emphasizing the critical role of semiotic dynamics in the structural and political transformations.