Evaluation of Human Resource Management in the Green Revolution. Key Constructs in the Green Human Resource Management

The effects of environmental disasters and global warmingGlobal warming on the quality of life have increased in recent years. One main reason for this detrimental change is the increasing economic activities and the consequent environmental degradation. Therefore, environmental pressure on businessesBusiness has intensified over the past few years; thus the future of businessBusiness is being built on green and socially responsible sustainableSustainable operations. The literature on environmental management has recognised that in order to achieve environmentalSustainability sustainabilityEnvironmental sustainability objectives, organisations can use human resource managementHuman resource management practices to stimulate their employeesEmployee, and great efforts have been made to explore what drives employeesEmployee to engage in pro-environmental behavioursBehaviours that help their organisations to become environmentally friendly. Indeed, the growing concerns ofSustainable sustainableSustainable business businessBusiness may be partly responsible for the recent greening of human resource managementHuman resource management scholarship and practice. Therefore, this resulted in a new strategic manoeuvre called green human resource managementGreen Human Resource Management (GHRM). GHRM has been identified as one of the new effective management disciplines integrating with environmental management themes in strengthening an organisation's environmental performanceEnvironmental performance, hence the key is grounded on the association of HR practices with the organisation’s environmental activities. Thus, the topic and research area of GHRM is one which has become increasingly important in the past few years hence, investigating green revolution in human resource managementHuman resource management and identifying its key constructs are paramount. The objectives of this study are two-pronged, hence initially study directed to identify the green transformation to human resource managementHuman resource management and a desk review was conducted in search of the literature on GHRM using the archival method, to structure the GHRM constructs. The review was conducted to surveySurvey human resource managementHuman resource management practices in the aspects of environmental management research from 1996 to 2021 on the process format of human resource managementHuman resource management from green human resource planning to green grievance handling and exit. Summing up the main outcomes that the green human resource managementGreen Human Resource Management is one of the most important components while building the capabilities in environmental perspective that enable a change, from conventional HR practices to green as a way to achieve new paradigms. Therefore, it has an indispensable role to play in building the capabilities of the employeesEmployee to achieve environmental objectives. Reaching sustainabilitySustainability may require not only limited attention to technical and scientific advancements but also human elements. Therefore, practitioners must think beyond the routine activities of organisational human resource managementHuman resource management practices may be a critical predictor of the environmental improvement efforts.