Reducing Carbon Footprint through Green HRM

Abstract

Industrialization and globalization has led to a growing need for the integration of human resource and environment management into Green HRM. Green HRM primarily involves practises which promote sustainable use of resources. The purpose of this paper is to identify green initiatives taken by the organizations to combat the challenges posed by industrialization and globalization. The findings of the literature review suggest that companies are implementing green policies to reduce carbon footprint. Researcher used a case based approach where the annual and sustainability reports (2011-12/2012-13) of seven different organizations is analysed. This paper studies one company each from the selected seven sectors i.e. IT Services, FMCG, Aviation, Cloth industry, Communication, Telecom and Beverages. It is being found that several organizations have started realizing the importance of the environment and are implementing green policies to reduce carbon footprints and this behaviour is prevalent in all the sectors.