Green HRM for business organisations
Summary
TLDRThis podcast episode delves into the concept of Green Human Resource Management (HRM), outlining its definition, benefits, and implementation strategies for businesses. It highlights three key aspects: waste reduction, corporate culture improvement, and attracting eco-conscious customers. The episode showcases examples of companies like Google, Toyota, and IBM that have successfully integrated green practices, while also addressing potential challenges such as initial costs, knowledge gaps, and cultural shifts. The podcast concludes by emphasizing the importance of green initiatives in forward-thinking organizations, positioning them as both cost-effective and motivational.
Takeaways
- 🌿 Green HRM is defined as a set of policies that encourage sustainable use of resources within business organizations to promote environmentalism and improve employee morale, satisfaction, and efficiency.
- 💰 Benefits of implementing Green HRM include cost reduction through waste minimization, improved corporate culture, and attracting new customers by enhancing the company's reputation.
- 📉 Reduction of waste is a key aspect of Green HRM, focusing on decreasing paper and plastic usage, which also helps in reducing contamination and pollution.
- 👥 Improving corporate culture through Green HRM practices can lead to increased employee loyalty, job satisfaction, and a sense of belonging among employees.
- 🌐 The third target of Green HRM is attracting new customers by creating a perception of eco-friendliness, which can lead to a better company reputation and higher sales.
- 🚶♂️ Implementing Green HRM can start with simple steps like using eco-friendly transport, working from home, or reducing office visits to decrease pollution.
- 📑 Reducing paper usage through emails, messengers, and double-sided photocopies, as well as recycling unwanted paper, is part of Green HRM practices.
- 🔋 Energy conservation is encouraged through actions like powering down computers after inactivity and using energy-efficient light bulbs.
- 🏢 Companies like Google, Toyota, and IBM have successfully adopted Green HRM practices, setting examples for other businesses to follow.
- 🚧 Challenges in adopting Green HRM include initial costs for education and resources, lack of knowledge, potential stress on workers, and aligning with the company's vision.
- 🌟 Despite challenges, the benefits of Green HRM practices outweigh the disadvantages, making it an essential strategy for forward-thinking businesses.
Q & A
What is the definition of green HRM according to the podcast?
-Green HRM is a set of policies that encourage the sustainable use of resources within business organizations to promote environmentalism, improve employee morale, satisfaction, and efficiency, and promise stakeholders in the competitive market.
What are the three major aspects of green HRM mentioned in the script?
-The three major aspects of green HRM are reduction of waste, improvement of corporate culture, and attraction of new customers.
How does the reduction of waste cut costs for a firm?
-The reduction of waste cuts costs by decreasing garbage, which immediately reduces the expenses related to garbage removal and the need to purchase new stationery, tools, plastic dishes, cups, paper files, and so on.
What are the objectives of reducing wasted paper and plastic in a firm?
-The objectives include reducing contamination and pollution, which contributes to a more sustainable and environmentally friendly business operation.
How does green HRM improve corporate culture?
-Green HRM practices can improve corporate culture by adding responsibility to employees' everyday tasks, which in turn improves employee loyalty, job satisfaction, and reduces turnover.
What is the impact of green HRM on employee happiness?
-On average, 70% of employees feel happier with their jobs after the business starts practicing green HRM because they sense importance and contribute to solving global problems.
How does a company's green HRM practices affect its reputation and sales?
-Green HRM practices, combined with eco-friendly products, can lead to a better reputation for the firm, which induces higher sales and as a result, higher revenue.
What are some ways managers can implement green HRM in their firm?
-Managers can implement green HRM by encouraging employees to use eco-friendly transport, work from home, reduce paper usage, communicate via emails and messengers, use tablets for meetings, recycle paper, use water dispensers, provide reusable shopping bags, and be mindful about electricity usage.
Can you provide examples of large firms that have adopted green HRM practices?
-Examples of large firms that have adopted green HRM practices include Google, which coordinates business strategy with environmental efforts; Toyota, a car manufacturing firm that produces hybrid cars; and IBM, which has separated core HRM from non-core functions to save energy.
What are some challenges that may arise when adopting green HRM?
-Challenges include the initial cost of educating employees and investing in organic materials and resources, lack of knowledge at the start of the journey, potential destabilization of organizational culture, and the need for advanced technology that may require additional investment.
Why is it important for forward-thinking business organizations to adopt green management initiatives?
-Green management initiatives are important for forward-thinking business organizations because they encourage companies to find alternative ways to cut costs without losing talent and important resources, and they can also serve as a motivational and inspirational factor for employees.
Outlines
🌿 Introduction to Green HRM
The first paragraph introduces the concept of green human resource management (HRM) for business organizations. It defines green HRM as a set of policies aimed at promoting sustainable use of resources, enhancing employee morale and satisfaction, and attracting new customers. The paragraph outlines the three main goals of green HRM: waste reduction, corporate culture improvement, and customer attraction. It also mentions the benefits of adopting green practices, such as cost savings, increased employee loyalty, job satisfaction, and a competitive advantage in the market. Examples of sustainable practices include eco-friendly transportation, reduced paper usage, and energy-efficient operations.
🚀 Implementing Green HRM and Industry Examples
The second paragraph delves into how managers can implement green HRM practices within their organizations. It suggests various strategies such as using eco-friendly transportation, promoting remote work, reducing paper and plastic waste, and encouraging energy conservation. The paragraph also highlights the importance of educating employees to be more environmentally conscious. Furthermore, it provides examples of large companies that have successfully adopted green practices, such as Google, Toyota, and IBM. These companies serve as models for others in the industry, demonstrating the benefits of integrating environmental efforts with business strategy. The paragraph concludes by addressing potential challenges in adopting green HRM, such as the initial cost of resources, lack of knowledge, and organizational culture, but emphasizes that these can be overcome with education and practice.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Green HRM
💡Sustainability
💡Employee Morale
💡Corporate Culture
💡Waste Reduction
💡Eco-friendly Products
💡Hybrid Cars
💡Energy Efficiency
💡Work from Home
💡Recycling
💡Organizational Vision
Highlights
Green HRM is a set of policies encouraging sustainable use of resources within business organizations.
Green HRM aims to promote environmentalism, improve employee morale, satisfaction, and efficiency.
Three major aspects of Green HRM are reduction of waste, improvement of corporate culture, and attraction of new customers.
Reduction of waste can immediately cut costs associated with garbage removal and stationery.
Improving corporate culture through Green HRM can increase employee loyalty and job satisfaction by 70%.
Attracting new customers is achieved by implementing environmental management systems for competitive advantage.
Eco-friendly products and Green HRM practices contribute to a firm's good reputation and higher sales.
Adopting Green HRM can be done through various methods depending on the firm's willingness and size.
Using eco-friendly transport or sharing rights can reduce pollution from cars.
Allowing employees to work from home or reducing office visits can also contribute to Green HRM.
Reducing paper usage and promoting digital communication can decrease waste.
Using water dispensers and refillable bottles can lower plastic waste.
Providing reusable shopping bags and containers can minimize the use of non-reusable items.
Being mindful about electricity usage, such as powering down computers, can save energy.
Google coordinates business strategy with environmental efforts, setting an example for the industry.
Toyota has become a model of lean production and green certification, inspiring other businesses.
IBM separated core HRM from non-core functions, saving electrical energy and increasing IT capacity.
Challenges in adopting Green HRM include the need for education, lack of knowledge, and potential stress on workers.
Green management initiatives are crucial for forward-thinking business organizations.
Encouraging employees to be environmentally friendly is a top practice for organizations.
Transcripts
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hello and welcome to our podcast about
green HRM we are a group of students
that have come together to tell you
about green human resource management
for business organizations this video is
going to cover all necessary aspects of
dream human resource management firstly
we will give you a definition then move
on to benefits of going green after that
stage possible ways for your firm to
start practicing it tell you about well
giants that are already functioning as
sustainable businesses and explain some
obstacles that may come along during the
conversion into the green community we
hope this video will encourage you to
take action so let's roll on what is a
green HR it is a set of policies that
encouraged the sustainable use of
resources within business organizations
to promote the environmentalism in the
process create improved employee morale
satisfaction and efficiency by promising
stakeholders in the competitive market
there are three major aspects reduction
of waste improvement of corporate
culture attraction of new customers
let's look at every single one in detail
reduction of waste a decrease of garbage
immediately cut the cost the firm would
have to finance garbage removal fake
tags buy as much new stationery or tools
plastic dishes cups paper files and so
on the main focus is of course on the
reduction of contamination and pollution
this leads to the following objectives
like reduction of wasted paper and
plastic the next focus area is the
improvement of corporate culture green
HRM practices and hand simply
responsibility by adding a few more
tasks to their everyday job it improves
employee loyalty and lowers the to
nowhere despite having sense of
belonging
job satisfaction and deficiencies also
increase on average 70% employees feel
happier with their jobs after the
business starts to practice green HR
because the employees sense importance
and everyday nourish and idea of
contributing to take actions relevant to
the global problems and the third target
of green HRM is the attraction of new
customers nowadays companies are
implementing environmental management
system a strategic tool to gain
competitive advantage this is achieved
by creating a perception that the
products offered are eco-friendly even
if they aren't such yet this leads onto
the firm having a better reputation
green HRM practices plus eco-friendly
products equals to good firm with a good
reputation which induce higher sales and
as a result higher revenue now the
tricky part how to adopt green HRM
how can managers implement it there are
numerous ways the employees can take
small steps or large ones it depends on
the willingness and the size of the firm
use eco-friendly transport or share
rights this will allow to reduce
pollution from cars more than that it is
possible to let the employees work from
home or come to the office less
frequently reduce usage of paper as
already mentioned use less people by
communicating by emails messengers use
tablets for meetings and presentations
make double-sided photocopies and
recycle unwanted paper use water
dispensers and refillable bottles by
which lower the amount of plastic waste
provide reusable shopping bags and
containers for lunch for example instead
of constantly getting a plastic bag or a
non reusable container the company can
provide their own or at least educate
employees
be more conscious about it and lastly be
mindful about the electricity power down
computers after a few minutes of
inactivity use energy efficient light
bulbs in the initial stage of green
nature organize a campaign and stop
lightening up the offices at night times
for advertisement reasons
here are a few examples of the world's
biggest firm that have already moved
onto the green path Google we all know
Google and walk up to its sizes and
achievements in the technological world
so here are the ways to go green their
director coordinates business strategy
and environmental efforts they publicist
in the information to educate people
from the outside and become a leader in
the industry they were mainly the first
ones to give the preference to a green
HRM and maintain other firms to look up
to them and strive to be associated with
them second giant practices green
interim is a car manufacturing firm
Toyota they as acted as a model of lean
production began to work was on the
green certified companies which
motivated other businesses to go green
and start the production of hybrid cars
hybrid cars function 60% on petrol and
40% on electricity and the third example
is an American multi-national
technological company IBM they separated
core HRM arose from the non core of
back-office place business functions
were the our best located based on the
cost and skills and doubles their IT
capacity which a result saved 1.3
million dollars worth of electrical
energy which is equivalent to burden
three point
and five million tons of coal was also
organizations who have just decided to
start to introduce the eco-friendly
functioning there are some challenges
first one cause at the beginning for
education organic materials and other
resources second one lack of knowledge
only at the start of the journey due to
the newness of the tendency third one
organizational culture as well as the
practice can improve it it can also
destabilize it by putting more
responsibility and as a result stress on
workers also an organizational vision is
a concept of sustainability or
eco-friendly products may not be the
main focus of the freedom and not be the
aspects they are wanting to pay much
attention to this one technology may be
too advanced technology be required for
example if all the notes are written by
hand the employee will need to buy a
computer but with the little education
and practice those I easy to overcome
there are surely more benefits than
disadvantages in the conclusion we'll
want to say that green management
initiatives is an important factor in
forward-thinking business organizations
around the world green HR initiates
companies to find alternative ways to
cut costs without losing their talent
and important resources HR professionals
indicate that encouraging employees to
be more environmentally friendly in the
workplace is the top practice for their
organizations matters like this one is
more than just an act of kindness but it
is also a motivational and inspirational
toe
we highly recommend the firm to practice
it
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