Emerging Trend of Green HRM
There has been increasing focus and discussions globally to reduce carbon footprint and go green as a result of catastrophes that climate change has brought. It is the responsibility of every individual to act responsibly to preserve the environment and the world as a whole for the next generations to come. Organizations are one of the main contributors to environmental impacts and HR Departments in organizations have a vital role in supporting Organization’s objective to improve eco-friendly business.
What is Green HRM
Green Human Resource Management
(GHRM) concept is relatively new and has been a subject with a small volume of
scholarly works
Why Greening is important
In addition to the benefits, it
brings to the world such as minimize global warming, reducing the environmental pollution
and protection of animal and human life for a prolonged time
An article in Hrmi.org (2018)
indicates that big firms in Europe are already practicing Green strategies in
HRM, especially in Germany and the UK. Companies such as Siemens, BASF, Bayer
and Mannesmann already using Green image strategies through environmental
activities to attract talented employees, also The Rover Group vehicle manufacturer
in the UK includes environmental responsibilities and qualifications part of
every job profile. This shows the trend of more attraction within organizations
and increasing GHRM practices being included in the employee recruitment process.
Some of Green HRM Practices
Bangwal and Tiwari (2015) mentions
following examples of Green HRM Practices
1) Green
Recruitment – Selecting employees
who are aware of sustainable process
2) Green
Performance Management – Integrating environmental management into
performance management
3) Green
Training and Development – Train
and develop employees to become more environmentally friendly by reducing waste,
careful utilization of resources and energies.
4) Green Compensation and Reward System – to motivate and encourage employees to act and behave environment friendly
Conclusion
More and more organizations are
currently moving towards environment-friendly approaches within Organizations
as a part of Corporate Social Responsibility by implementing E-filling, Green
printing and proper disposal of solid and E-waste. However, it is important to promote
and implement proper Greening strategies by integrating Greening with HRM practices
from the employee recruitment process to exit which will pave the way to build a
good company image with good morale of employees and also as an obligation to
the world and next generations.
References
Bangwal, D. & Tiwari, P., 2015. Green HRM – A
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pp. 45-53.
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2019. Why going green in the office benefits more than just the environment. [Online]
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The article's flow and structure are well-executed.
ReplyDeleteCompanies should conduct an environmental audit that focuses on recycling while also benefiting society and its people. It will help employees and members of organizations understand how natural resources are used and promote environmentally friendly products. Organizations should now aim for their goals through GHRM.
Thank you for the comments Umesh
DeleteGreen HRM Human Resource Management is a very wide and the challenging department of every organization and only this department deals with the most valuable asset of the organization that are human resource, that is the reason that the all major challenging developments focus on human resources of the country and try to blend the technology and the work force together for the un beatable growth of the organization as well as the economy of the country and they both together make a bond which focuses on the sustainable environment growth....Thanks for sharing
ReplyDeleteThank you for your input Mihirani
DeleteGreen Human Resources Management (GHRM) can be defined as a set of policies, practices, and programs that promote the company's green work ethic in order to create an environmentally friendly, resource-efficient, and socially responsible organization. This helps to achieve greater efficiency and lower costs within the process, reducing and eliminating environmental waste and rehabilitating HR products, tools and processes. By recognizing the environment, organizations are beginning to integrate green initiatives into their common workplace and community.
ReplyDeleteGreen HR Management (GHRM) can be defined as a group of policies, practices, and systems that stimulate the green behavior of a company's employees in order to create an environmentally sensitive, resource-efficient, and socially responsible organization. This is an Eco-Friendly global concept that helps to secure our future. In Sri Lanka Banking sector also started to practice this GHRM inside of their branches.
ReplyDeleteTrending topic Fayaz, according to Rugman and Verbeke (1998), environmental matters are some of the most complex and important managerial tasks of the twenty first century. They comprise climate change, resources reduction and decrease of ecosystem integrity and biodiversity. Public and private organizations are using natural resources wastefully for the production of various goods and services wanted by people who need to uplift their living standards. Hence an increased attention on GHRM.
ReplyDeleteNatural resources are continuously using by people for productions and services which need to enhance their standard of living. Resultantly an increased trend was created among the people in respect of environmental sustainability. The purpose of Green HRM and practices is to create, enhance and retain Greening within each employee of the organization so that the employee gives a maximum individual contribution for environment sustainability.
ReplyDeleteGood current topic Fayaz...........
Green HRM is the use of HRM policies to support the sustainable use of resources in organizations and, a great help to the causes of environmental sustainability. It involves making environmentally friendly efforts that lead to greater efficiency, lower costs, and employee engagement and retention that ultimately helps the organization reduce carbon footprint.
ReplyDeleteThis was an academic concept on Sustainable development and Corporate sustainability at first. But in recent times businesses focused on this due to Global environmental changes. Green HRM is the concept identify the relationship between organizational activities and the impact of them on the environment. I feel all the organizations must implement this Eco-friendly practice since environment is priceless and its our duty to preserve it.
ReplyDeleteInformatics article Fayaz. GHRM is a manifesto that helps to create a green workforce that is able to understand and appreciate the green culture in the organization. Such a green initiative can maintain its green goals throughout the HRM process of hiring, hiring and training, compensation, development, and corporate financing.
ReplyDeleteThis is very relevant and important topic. The concept of green HRM is becoming increasingly popular around the world. This concept is being adopted by many of organizations in SL today. To protect trees and the environment, a "paperless office" has been implemented. One of the primary goals of greening is to reduce the potential negative effects of energy consumption and pollution on the environment as much as possible.
ReplyDeleteThis is an interesting topic to discuss Fayaz.
ReplyDeleteGreen HRM involves undertaking environment-friendly HR initiatives resulting in greater efficiency, lower costs and better employee engagement and retention,it will help the organization to reduce employee carbon footprints by electronic filing, car sharing, job sharing, teleconferencing, and virtual interviews, recycling, telecommuting, online recruitment and training, energy-efficient office spaces.
Very important topic Fayaz . Environmentally-friendly HR practices are very valuable approach . In the last two decades of this century, the entire world has agreed that realistic environmental management is needed. The reason for this effort is that the destructive effects of different pollutants are already evident, among which industrial waste is the main culprit for the rapid deterioration and consumption of our natural resources. The "Magna Carta" of the human environment was announced at the first United Nations (International) Conference on the Human Environment held in Stockholm in June 1972, declaring that the protection and improvement of the human environment for present generations and future has become a top priority. Human. The ecological human resource management literature is primarily Western literature. In view of the importance of Asian economic development for environmental management, this is an important gap for future research to narrow. Management academics around the world are now looking at various management practices that can further the achievement of GHRM goals and have a significant impact on the environmental competitiveness of the organization.
ReplyDeleteIt refers to making efforts to enhance energy efficiency or lower pollution levels in our homes, businesses, and everyday lives. The primary goal of going green is to lessen the environmental impact of energy consumption and pollution.
ReplyDeleteAnjana Nath defines Green HR as environment-friendly HR initiatives leading to better efficiencies, less cost, and heightened employee engagement levels.
We can observe most of the developed countries are practicing green HRM concept for a greater extent and the developing countries like us are still in the beginning stages and yet have evolved for a greater extent. For instance, when considering banking sector, it prefers E-Recruitment process with the present situation, further the bank thrives on Digital Banking adaption. Very correctly stated in your article as Salaries and Compensation are evolved from manual transfers or deposit process. Thank You.
The concept of a Green World has been around for sometime mainly as a solution to the huge amount of pollution caused by humans, the green HRM concept is also an expansion of that which began as a result of the green initiatives being introduced to the world, as you have well said in the article it's an extremely viable and important concept for the world currently. Great Article overall
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