Abstract
Researchers and practitioners have argued that human resource management practices have a positive impact on environmental outcomes. This is because green human resource management practices enhance a firm's environmental performance. Although studies do not explain how green initiatives can enable organisational sustainability, this chapter examines the influence of green human resource management practices on organisational sustainability in the context of Nigeria. The chapter adopted a discourse content analysis as a method of data collection. The chapter holds that organisational sustainability relies on green training intervention as the means of understanding and redressing the human environment with a view to achieving and sustaining a better quality of life. Conclusively, green human resource management practices target protecting the ecosystem, among others. The chapter recommended that sustainability could be achieved through employee green behaviour and eco-innovation at the industrial level.
TopBackground
Prior to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has been the concern of global countries and some scholars (Essien & Akphan, 2010; Dauda, 2016; Fajana. 2019) have questioned its achievement in the context of Nigeria. This is because in the attainment of MDGs the critical role of education, training and development of human element is very imperative.
Human Capital Management (HCM) is the most globally accepted label of activities relating to people management. Hence, human capital management describes “an academic discipline and an area of industrial practices with contents in concepts, theories, models, policies, strategies, plans, programmes, rules and regulations, and other activities that are connected with the acquisition, maintenance and effective utilization of people towards the achievement of organisational goals for overall organisational effectiveness and sustainability” (Fajana, 2019, p. 4).
Key Terms in this Chapter
Green Gas Emission: These are toxic gases been generated from nitrogenous substances that are harmful for human beings, animals and affect the earth globally.
Human Resource Management Practices: It is the systematic process of managing human elements in the world of work, starting from the point of entry to the exit point in such organisation.
Green Human Resource Management: These are policies and programmes designed by organisations to overcome the challenges of greenhouse emission through green revolution practices.
Nigeria: This is a country in Sub-Sahara Africa with the largest population among the black race in the world.
Organisational Sustainability: It is the ability of an organisation to maintain and be consistent in its mode of operandi, which in turn lead to increase in performance, profitability, enhance customer and workers satisfaction as well as competitiveness among its peers.
Sustainability: It is model developed by the United Nations to integrate the economic, the human and the environment towards creating an environmentally sensitive, resource efficient and socially responsible workplace and overall organisation.