A GENERAL REVIEW OF GREEN HUMAN RESEARCH MANAGEMENT WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF SUSTAINABILITY

Abstract

Undoubtedly, if an organization wants to adapt changing conditions, provide continuance, improve productivity and competitiveness, should use human resource efficiently. So, human resource departments have important tasks to provide sustainability and business strategy. Thanks to green/environmental policies organization may increase personal motivation and efficiency and also decrease costs. In addition to these, firms contribute their image and brand value significantly. In order to provide sustainability, in today’s conditions, firms especially prefer to corporate citizenship and sustainability environmental projects. In this scope Green Human Resource Management; has a role for adapting social and environment friendly policies to business management, HR policies and practices, personal training and development even responsibilities. Furthermore, even departments of businesses with regards to provide sustainability; Green-HRM policies and practices help to decrease to carbon footprints of organization and personal. General purpose of this study is research importance of Green-HRM in terms of sustainability strategies of organizations and contributes to Turkish literature that hardly doesn’t have studies in Green-HRM. As a matter of fact, in Turkey, there is no study and research adequately. Present studies especially focusing; new job opportunities and technologies about renewable energy resources, minimizing to environmental damage and environmental sustainability. But, there is no study about how green culture adapt to business, how classical human research management policy and practices adapt to green target and policy. The main purpose of this study is encourage the studies about this subject.