Systematic Literature Review on Green Human Resource Management: Green Health, Safety and Welfare as New Dimension

This study aim to review the past studies to highlight the most frequently used green human resource management practices (GHRM) in the literature. Further, it also proposes the green health, wealth and security as an important GHRM practice to improve the environmental performance of the organizations. Systematic literature review was used to acknowledge the past literature of a decade and total 49 studies as a sample were included in this study. The previous studies were taken from the JSTOR, PROQUEST, EBSCO, Web of Science, SCOPUS, Emerald, Elsevier and Springer with the combination of keywords. Findings reveal that GHRM practices are extensively used to enhance the environmental performance of the organizations and most frequently used practices were green training & development, green recruitment & selection, green reward and compensation. Human resource department is an active partner to initiate and adopt green practices to meet the stakeholder's pressure. Analysis of data also highlighted the GHRM scholarship which stills remained due to GHRM infancy stage. Systematic literature review on GHRM suggest that organizations can get benefit by offering motivating factors for employees to adopt green HRM policies and practices that help to enhance organizational and environmental performance. This study highlighted the gaps which exist in the literature of GHRM and are important factor for both developed and developing countries as well as specifically for those countries which are higher in producing greenhouse gases.