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Green Human Resource Management

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Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

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Environmental human resource management; Green HRM

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During the 2000s, researchers realized the importance of studies of Green Human Resource Management (HRM) as a topic at the intersection of corporate environmental sustainability and HRM (e.g., Aiman-Smith et al. 2001; Albinger and Freeman 2000; del Brío et al. 2007).

Green HRM can be defined as a set of people-centered practices oriented toward developing and maintaining the workforce’s abilities, motivation, and opportunities to contribute to an organization’s economic and environmental sustainability (e.g., Martínez-del-Río et al. 2012; Renwick et al. 2013). Therefore, it can be conceived as a set of best HRM practices oriented toward enhancing the overall environmental sustainability orientation of all of the functions and dimensions of an organization.

These best practices include green recruitment and selection, green education and training, rewards systems, appraisal and performance management, involvement,...

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  1. Business and Economics Department, University of Almeria, Almería, Spain

    A. Labella-Fernández

  2. Business and Economics Department, University of Almeria, Almería, Spain

    J. Martínez-del-Río

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Labella-Fernández, A., Martínez-del-Río, J. (2019). Green Human Resource Management. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P., Wall, T. (eds) Responsible Consumption and Production. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71062-4_113-1

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