International Scientific Conference 2016

THE PRIORITY DIRECTIONS OF NATIONAL ECONOMY DEVELOPMENT

GREEN HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: ORGANIZATIONAL READINESS FOR SUSTAINABILITY

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Abstract:  Sustainable development, seen as long-term, responsible growth and development, is balancing between social, environmental and economic goals. Organizations nowadays are trying to reach sustainability in business by performing different activities regarding all three mentioned goals. Beside financial performances, which are economic goals, many environmental and social responsible practices can help them to make their business sustainable. One of practices that become more and more interesting for modern organizations is green human resource management (GHRM). The aim of this paper is to explore the concept of GHRM, main GHRM activities and relationship between HRM and environmental performances of organizations. The subject of research represents the main activities of green human resource management. The authors proposed GHRM as a management concept that could be seen as organizational readiness for reaching sustainability.

Keywords:  human resource management, sustainable development, corporate social responsibility, environmental management

Published:   p. 271-282   PDF

ISC-2016



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