BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE WORKFORCE: THE ROLE OF GREEN HRM IN DRIVING CORPORATE ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17403331Keywords:
sustainability, green, environmentally-friendly, HR management, business practices, initiative, organization.Abstract
In today’s globalized world, the need for sustainability has become ever -growing social issue. Evidently, creating
sustainable and environmentally- friendly business environment gives an opportunity to resolve pressuring issues of
the environment and at the same time develop and implement sustainable initiatives. This article aims to achieve the
following goals: to review and analyze the concept of green human resource management from the existing literature with
examples of prominent companies; and to detail green human resource management practices and their applicability in
organizations. This review is expected to help researchers in the feld of human resource management specifcally green
human resource management by providing a detailed meaning of green HRM and other related concepts. Further, the
paper aims at showing the signifcance of green HRM in contemporary organizations.
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