Green human resource management

Abstract

Purpose: Green or environmental Human Resource Management (GHRM) has became popular in recent years and there is a spate of conferences and researches going on in the area of green HRM, with these developments taking place GHRM also gaining the attention of academia and practitioners from all around the globe. Therefore there is a need to provide a comprehensive literature review so that further analysis can be carried out on the recommendations thus suggested, therefore this paper provide a comprehensive literature review in the area of Green Human Resource Management and try to identify scope, approaches and contexts to identify focus areas and also proposed areas for future researches. Design/Methodology/Approach: On the basis of comprehensive literature review approach researches were borrowed from many reputed journals and the researches from these journals became the inherent part of this paper. Multidimensional matrix was formed after the identification of six focus areas and six contextual variables. Findings: It is proposed that more than 40 articles would be reviewed in a process of performing comprehensive literature review as the research is growing significantly in the area of Green Human Resource Management from the last decade.