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