Description
This book examines a new topic in Human Resource Management (HRM), green – or environmental – HRM, analysing the role humans play in environmental management at work and environmental behaviours at workplaces around the world.
The book begins with a focus on negative workplace green behaviours (e.g. toxic chemical leaks, air pollution, contaminated waste etc.), and what such environmental problems mean for workers, managers and society as a whole.
This book outlines relevant, underpinning academic theory and research literature on how HRM is ‘going green’, and details real-life organisational examples derived from original and secondary empirical research to illuminate the implications of adopting Green HRM practices for relevant stakeholders. In doing so, the book offers a new, academic contribution to both the HRM and environmental management literatures.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Susan E. Jackson
1. Introduction: Towards an understanding of Green Human Resource Management
Douglas W.S. Renwick
PART I: Internal and external organisational GHRM initiatives
2. Motivation and GHRM: overcoming the paradox
Kerrie L. Unsworth and Amy Tian
3. Employee engagement in managing environmental performance: a case study of the Planet Champion initiative, McDonald's UK and Sweden
Chandana Sanyal and Julie Haddock-Millar
4. A case study of Mater Misericordiae Limited
Sally V. Russell and Christopher Hill
5. Enabling green spillover: how firms can benefit from employees' private green activism
Susanna Blazejewski, Anja Gräf, Anke Buhl and Franziska Dittmer
PART II: Contextualising GHRM - from GHRM to sustainability?
6. Employee control, ethics and politics - GHRM in context
Luca Carollo and Marco Guerci
7. Competing paradigms: status-quo and alternative approaches in HRM
Brian Matthews, Lisa Obereder, Ina Aust (was Ehnert) and Michael Müller-Camen
8. Implementing sustainable HRM: the new challenge of corporate sustainability
Cathy Xu, Paul J. Gollan and Adrian Wilkinson
9. Future directions of Green HRM: redefining Human Resource Management to humans really matter
Ante Glavas
10. From Green HRM towards workforce sustainability?
Douglas W.S. Renwick
