Promoting Employee’s Pro-environmental Behaviors Through Green Human Resource Management

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Green environmental practices are the new trend that used by most of the organization as a successful initiative for achieving  environmental sustainability. In the past decade’s irreversible climate changes, environmental pollution, scarcity of resources have increased at an alarming speed and current fight of Covid-19 pandemic faced by whole world caused as a result of misbehavior of humans. So organizations all sound the world are tending to implement various Pro-environmental initiatives. Green environmental human resource management means set of polices, practices and systems that motivates a green behavior of organizational employees in order to maintain an environmental sensitive and socially responsible working environment (Jabbour, 2011). This is one of current important challenge to HR professionals to ensure a best integration in environmental sustainability under human resources policies. The concept of green human resources management has arisen from organizations change their practices by concerning on protecting environment and maintains ecological balance. AS per the study of (Sharifa K. Mousa, 2019)  Pro-environmental behaviors of employees developed with the HR practices.

Source ; (Sharifa K. Mousa, 2019)

Green Human resource practices 

Green recruitment and selection ; Green recruitment and selection mainly concern on the candidates’ green awareness,green employer branding and green criteria to attract candidates. So  this involves personality factors that enable organizational environmental goals to be achieved, such as green consciousness, conscientiousness, and the agreeableness of candidates (Renwick, 2008) 

Green Training and development ; Organize a system of activities to motivates employees to learn environment protection skills and pay attention to environmental problems which is a main key to achieve environmental objectives through maximize the employee awareness ,knowledge and skills and practices in environmental activates (Sammalisto & Brorson, 2008) 

Green performance management and appraisal; This is used as a system to  evaluate the activities of employees’ performance in the process of environmental management and performance indicators to implement with a series of critics such as environmental responsibilities , reduce carbon emissions and give the awareness on environmental concerns and polices.  

Green rewards and compensation's ; A system of financial and non-financial rewards, aiming at attracting, retaining, and motivating employees to contribute to environmental goals. As an example most of the companies provides plants to employees as gifts and promoting green tax, green recognition and green travel benefits (Jabbour, 2011).


Conclusion

Green HRM operations and practices make employees of the origination green for the benefit of individuals, society, natural environment and business and it ensures environmental safety. And also it help organization to create green workforce that is able to appreciate and understand green initiatives. As a modern trend,  green concept will make to develop a positive behaviors from employees towards the working environment. 

References

Jabbour, C., 2011. How green are HRM practices, organizational culture learning and team work. Industrial and commercial Training, 43(2), pp. 98-105.

Renwick, D. R. T. &. M. S., 2008. Green HRM: A review, process model, and research agenda. University of She ffield Management School Discussion Paper, pp. 1-46.

Sammalisto, K. & Brorson, T., 2008. Training and communication in the implementation of environmental management system. Journal of Cleaner Production, 16(3), pp. 299-309.

Sharifa K. Mousa, M. O., 2019. The impact of green human resource management practices on sustainable performance in healthcare organizations. Journal of Pre-proof, 9(2), pp. 59-68.

 

 

Comments

  1. Hansika SamarakoonMay 1, 2021 at 2:15 AM

    According to Landis, R.S.(2020), the Pros of inexperienced HRM such as Helping firms to bring down prices while not losing their talent, Creating a replacement friendly atmosphere, Achieving higher worker job satisfaction and commitment, Creating a culture of getting concerned for the eudemonia and health of fellow employees, Improving the retention rate of the worker, Improving public image, Promote employee morale, Improving in attracting higher workers, Reduction within the environmental impact of the corporate, Improving fight and exaggerated overall performance, Reduce the utility prices, Tax edges, Increasing business opportunities, Reduce the environmental injury and etc.

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  2. HR ZONE JINODAMay 3, 2021 at 7:00 AM

    GHRM is a new concept and is becoming popular all over the world. It has got different meanings to different people. Green HRM involves undertaking environment-friendly HR initiatives resulting in greater efficiency, lower costs and better employee engagement and retention, which in turn, help organizations 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, etc. The Green Human Resource Management plays an important role in the industry to promote the environment-related issues.

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  3. Ranjana BandaraMay 4, 2021 at 7:12 AM

    So organizations all sound the world are tending to implement various Pro-environmental initiatives. Green environmental human resource management means set of polices, practices and systems that motivates a green behavior of organizational employees in order to maintain an environmental sensitive and socially responsible working environment

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  4. HR Times- Isuru WijayalathMay 7, 2021 at 7:47 AM

    Success of organizational initiatives for environmental sustainability hinges upon employees' proenvironmental behaviors. One of the contemporary important challenges faced by HR professionals is to ensure proper integration of environmental sustainability into human resource policies. The green human resource management has emerged from organizations engaging in practices related to protection of environment and maintaining ecological balance.

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