Green Human Resource Management for Advancing SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth Aligning HR policies with environmental sustainability and employee wellbeing

Abstract

GHRM has become an important tactic that can help an organization consider the sustainability concept in its collection of human capital practices and align with the sustainable development objective No. 8 (SDG 8): Decent Work and Economic Growth at the United Nations. The paper discusses how such HR policies on green recruitment, green training, performance rated in line with green acquisitions and the issue of employee wellbeing are also beneficial in promoting sustainability in terms of environmental acceptance in addition to promoting acceptable labor practices. The paper boasts of an introduction to the related literature and methodology of the study, which is a gaze on both literatures and case-based research findings. Findings show that firms using the GHRM strategies have experienced more productivity, corporate image, and sustainability with regard to sustainable development. Nevertheless, there are some practical constraints such as high start-up costs, cultural inertia and the inability of finding a universally applicable framework. The next research direction should be theoretical improvements of sector-specific models of GHRM and the precise measure of its influence on SDG 8 indicators, implementing digital technologies such as AI and analytics to track HR results driven by the sustainability agenda.