Green HRM Practices at Various Companies

In the present situation of global warning the organizations also find out ways and techniques to deal with reduction in ecological footprints besides dealing with the economic issues. In order to attain success within the corporate community and to facilitate attainment of profit by the shareholders, organizations nowadays have to concentrate on social and environmental factors along with economical and financial factors. In the last few years, the human resources department has undergone tremendous changes. HR leaders today are charged with adapting to today's changing workforce, becoming increasingly strategic and using technology and contributing tremendously to improve human capital management functions. Organizations are implementing and integrating green initiatives in their agenda with the help of their human resource. Managers make sure that their HR is utilizing green human resource practices in appropriate manner. The successful implementation of these sustainable corporate strategies within an organization requires both strong leadership and a concrete process. The sustainability issue is fast moving up on the list of priorities of the leaders of corporate world as the >awareness on incorporating “green” into the corporate strategy is making its way in business, but still it is not comfortable with most practitioners in the current HR environment, still there are companies where HR Babu culture is prevailing where one man only constitutes entire HR department who would not have even heard of Green HRM, but at the same time from western countries Green HRM has spreaded its wing in Big brands of India where professionalism in HR department is in their root still it is in nascent stage in India. This paper is literature review based and discusses current practices of green HRM at few companies.