Green Human Resource Management (GHRM)

Abstract

Green revolution, going green, environmental protection, sustainable life style, protecting our earth and many more has become a natural phenomenon in our everyday life. Green Human Resource Management (GHRM) has become a key business strategy for the significant organisations where Human Resource Departments play a crucial role in going green. The term Green Human Resource refer to the promotion of sustainable employee practices with the help of interface of every employee, It's aims to increase the awareness among the employees on the issue of sustainability. GHRM deals with the Human Resource activities which are environmental friendly and promote the sustainable use of natural resource in the organisation. Today, some GHRM activities that have become typical, for example: avoiding unnecessary printing, recycling printed papers, use of telephone or video interviewing and conference in order to avoid the environmental impact of travel.etc., This paper largely focuses on significant works of GHRM globally practices pursed by the organisations across the world and explores the comprehensive meaning of GHRM. The study elaborates on various practices that can be incorporated for building a Green workplace.