Green HRM: Best HR Practices Within an Organization for Reducing Employees' Carbon Footprint

Green HRM: Best HR Practices Within an Organization for Reducing Employees' Carbon Footprint

Anupama Lakhera, Pooja Sharma
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 8
DOI: 10.4018/IJKBO.2020070101
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Abstract

Green HRM is a concept that is fast gaining prominence in the field of management. This review article discusses Green HRM for implementing best HR practices for reducing employees' carbon footprint and thus leading to sustainable growth within the organization. It explores how Green HRM can achieve the integration of environment-friendly HR practices and activities in order to achieve long-lasting sustainable development and a reduction of the employee carbon footprint. The data is collected on the basis of secondary sources such as articles, research papers, case studies, and internet websites. Green HRM does not only imply awareness and concern towards environmental issues, it favors the economic as well as social wellbeing of the employees and organization. This article deliberates on the Green HRM approach and the prominent part it can play in integrating and merging the HR practices within the organization in favour of the environment.
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Implementation Of Green Hrm

Implementation of Green HRM practices helps in creating a Green workforce that understands, appreciates, and practices green initiatives throughout the organization. The Green workforce preserves its green objectives at every level of the HR process that includes recruiting and hiring of employees, training, compensating and so on and thus helps in advancing the organization’s human capital. Green HRM practices include recruiting by video conferencing or by conducting online interviews via Skype, to utilize video recruiting techniques to minimize travel requirements (Figure 1).

Table 1.
Green initiatives across the globe
20102012201320182020
“The UK launched the London Carbon Trading Exchange”“The US signed the Kyoto II agreement and become a leading advocate for actions to reduce the rate of global warming”“India become a key player in the corporate social responsibility agenda with a focus on preserving the Indian culture and heritage”“Hybrid or fully electric cars outnumber petrol-powered cars”“A group of scientists confirm that the rate of global warming is slowing”

Source: PWC Report: Managing Tomorrow’s People

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