Greening human resource management: A review policies and practices

Abstract

The awareness of Green Human Resource Management (GHRM) practices has been phenomenally increased among Different stakeholders like management researchers, practitioners, governments, corporate world including business executives and consumers. A review of the literature shows that the concept of GHRM has gained significant attention from research scholars in recent years. Since the corporate world has experienced a shift from traditional HRM practices to go green by integrating environmental aspects into HRM practices. GHRM practices have become a key tool for the green organizations. This research study presents an integrative view of the literature about GHRM practices mainly including Green recruitment, training and development, performance appraisal, compensation and employee’ relation along with Green policies. Lastly the research provides comprehensive insight that organizations should translate Green HRM policy into practice to achieve sustainability agenda. In addition, the paper provides some GHRM initiatives for Green organizations.