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    The document discusses the challenges of implementing green human resource management. Some key challenges include acquiring candidates with environmental and corporate responsibility, requiring high initial investments, and taking a long time to change employee behaviors. Green practices can provide advantages such as reduced costs, improved employee retention and morale, and enhancing a company's sustainable brand image. However, measuring employee performance and bridging the gap from less personal interactions during remote operations can be problematic. The document suggests improving environmental education, creating performance metrics, strengthening green policies, and encouraging government support to address these challenges.

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    The document discusses the challenges of implementing green human resource management. Some key challenges include acquiring candidates with environmental and corporate responsibility, requiring high initial investments, and taking a long time to change employee behaviors. Green practices can provide advantages such as reduced costs, improved employee retention and morale, and enhancing a company's sustainable brand image. However, measuring employee performance and bridging the gap from less personal interactions during remote operations can be problematic. The document suggests improving environmental education, creating performance metrics, strengthening green policies, and encouraging government support to address these challenges.

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    The document discusses the challenges of implementing green human resource management. Some key challenges include acquiring candidates with environmental and corporate responsibility, requiring high initial investments, and taking a long time to change employee behaviors. Green practices can provide advantages such as reduced costs, improved employee retention and morale, and enhancing a company's sustainable brand image. However, measuring employee performance and bridging the gap from less personal interactions during remote operations can be problematic. The document suggests improving environmental education, creating performance metrics, strengthening green policies, and encouraging government support to address these challenges.

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    Challenges in Implementing Green Human Resource Management

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    The document discusses the challenges of implementing green human resource management. Some key challenges include acquiring candidates with environmental and corporate responsibility, requiring high initial investments, and taking a long time to change employee behaviors. Green practices can provide advantages such as reduced costs, improved employee retention and morale, and enhancing a company's sustainable brand image. However, measuring employee performance and bridging the gap from less personal interactions during remote operations can be problematic. The document suggests improving environmental education, creating performance metrics, strengthening green policies, and encouraging government support to address these challenges.

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    Challenges in implementing Green Human Resource

    Management
    Apurva Srivastava(2016IPG-018), Oshin Malviya(2016IPG-066)
    23rd August 2019

    1 BACKGROUND
    Green human resources is the classic Human Resources Operation but with the deviation from tra-
    ditional practice where most or all efforts, initiatives and activities comply with sustainability and
    eco-friendly practice. From communications methods to employee selection, there are many ways for
    the green effect to take place here. [1] The corporate world is transitioning from financial standpoint
    to environmental standpoint. Green human resource management is combination of traditional Hu-
    man Resource management and Environment management.
    But this transitioning of standpoint comes at a cost of more effort and expense. From training
    the employees to enforcing new workplace culture and policies requires struggle on the part of the
    employees as well as management.

    2 AIM
    Objectives of the study:
    • To analysis the green HR policies and practices.
    • To understand the advantages and challenges in implementation of green human resource man-
    agement.
    Advantages of Adopting Green Human Resource Management:
    • Reduction of Operational cost of the company, contributing towards profit
    • Green practices help in retention of talented and sensible employs and increase of employee
    morale.
    • Helps in building company brand image and boasting co-operate social responsibility making
    the company attractive to investors

    3 GREEN PRACTICES
    Some practices adopted are:
    • Green Recruiting and Hiring: Instead of walk-ins, interviews are done on a virtual platform
    using teleconferencing, The candidates hires must comply with green policy of the company. It
    prompts the decrease of travel time, energy, cost and environment pollution reduction.
    • Green Training and Development: Training should be targeted to inculcate practices that
    promote the employs to adopt environmental friendly ways of operation.

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    • Green Rewards and Appraisals: Employs are rewarded for adopting sustainable approach
    of working in form of bonuses
    • Green Redressals Mechanism: Company should have a strict policy of action if the employ
    fails to adopt green methods
    • Green Industrial Relation: Practices like flexible working hour, car-pooling,encourage the
    employee involvement in green management system.

    4 ADVANTAGES
    Green methods do not only prove beneficial to the company bottom line, but also
    improves job satisfaction of employees and also contributes to a sustainable future.
    • Competitive advantage: The company looks more attractive to investors by cultivating
    eco-friendly and socially responsible brand image for the company.
    • Increase employee retention and reduce labour turnover: It has been observed that
    the company that adopt green human resource management experience more job satisfaction
    on the employees’ part. Hence, the employees quit less often.
    • Global warming and Carbon foot print: Green methods help reduce carbon footprint
    which in turn helps in reducing global warming.
    • Achieving balanced triple bottom line: Green methods benefit employs, economy and
    environment

    5 CHALLENGES
    The company face many challenges while adopting green and sustainable approach
    • Get acquisition of green talent candidate: It is hard to acquire a candidate that balances
    environmental and corporate responsibility efficiently
    • High investment required: Green HR methods are expensive to deploy in the initial phase.
    • Requires long period of time to alter employee behavior: It is found that the old
    employs are resistant to adopting complicated greener ways
    • Problematic to measure performance : There is no defined metric to measure employee
    performance as their is a substantial gap of human resource touch.
    • Difficult to bridge the gap:A gap of human resource touch is observed while conducting
    events online.

    6 SUGGESTION
    The company face many challenges while adopting green and sustainable approach
    • Environmental Education: Environmental education should be a compulsory part of higher
    education.
    • Creation of performance metric: A universal metric should be created to measure perfor-
    mance of the employees for their appraisals.
    • Green HR Management practices: The company should have an elaborate polices to
    implement green methods and strict policies to prevent any deviation.
    • Energy conservation standards: The electronic appliances being used at the offices must
    comply with the energy conversation standards.
    • Government Policies: Government should also give relief to the company upholding good
    environmental and sustainable standards.

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    7 CONCLUSION
    It is the foremost responsibility of the organization to inculcate Green HR management for the
    betterment of environmental sustainability and use of natural resources in effective manner. Also,
    the organization should focus on reduction of carbon foot print, environmental pollution, and so
    forth. It is also a responsibility of the employees to take initiative and observe eco-friendly practices
    like car-pooling, avoiding use of plastic cups.

    References
    [1] Dr. F. Alexander Pravin Durai & B. Nalini. Emerging trends of hr practices in green initiatives.
    International Journal of Research in Engineering, IT and Social Sciences, 09(03):1–3, 2019.

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