With HR taking the center stage in organizations today, HRM holds a huge responsibility in contributing to the green strategy of the organizations, playing a significant role to the society and environment at large. Though there’s an increased pressure for environmental sustainability today, the concept of Green HR is still at a nascent stage in India with very few companies following its practices.
So as a thoughtful HR Consultancy in Surat, Kaapro Management Solutions Pvt. Ltd. has listed some effective HR practices to make your organization sustainable.
Create an environment-friendly culture with green HR practices by-
- Hiring individuals with a high social conscience and a green sense of responsibility.
- Making sure the new entrants have knowledge, skills, approaches, and behaviors that can connect to the environmental management systems within your organization.
- Ensuring that all the team members are familiar with an organization’s environmental culture and know the basics of recycling, conservation, and creating a more logical world and are capable of maintaining its environmental values. (Include the Environment- Management related training in your ‘Training & Development’ for the same)
- Making your training programs ‘eco-focused’. (i.e. not only focused on enhancing the productivity, but also on promoting the working methods that conserve energy and reduce waste.) Consider simplest of ideas like making double-sided photocopies, powering down computers during any inactivity or breaks, using energy-efficient bulbs etc. in your initiatives.
- Encouraging the employees to engage in environmental problem-solving, through giving them an opportunity to form and experiment with green ideas. And promoting green behavior among the team members, by rewarding their green management ideas and initiatives.
- Reducing employee carbon footprints through adopting green practices like electronic filing, car sharing, telecommuting, online recruitment and training through virtual interviews and teleconferencing, energy-efficient office spaces, paperless processes using Apps, Software, e-hr, etc.
The essence of promoting environmentalism here is that more than any practice, policy or process; Green HR needs a sincere participation of all the organization’s members in order to build a truly ‘sustainable and forward-thinking business’ in the world.
