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Introduction

ur Common Future, the report of the United Nations is a lighthouse
Ofor Green Human Resource Management (GHRM). The report is
contributed to guide the vital role of Human Resource Management in strategically
greening the organization (United Nations Environment Programme, 2019).

The climate change and environmental degradation change have become
the most influencing problem in current century resulting in economic losses
from climate and weather-related disasters like droughts, floods, wildfires,
hurricanes etc. This programme discovered that approximately 1.8 Celsius
of global warming before pre-industrial levels impacted by human activities
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2019). The main reasons of
ecological harms at local, regional and global scales are occured and it has been
at the center point for all sustainability discussions (Moscardo, et al., 2013).

Sustainability is defined as all business activities are focused to improve
the ecological and social performance while reaching the financial bottom line
(Brockhaus, et al., 2013).

Business operations are required and changes for achieving
environmental sustainability. The important point is employees are the main
change agents. The improvement of environmental performance and change
in general processes mainly depend on employees (Nejati, et al., 2017).
Green Human Resource Management (GHRM) plays a giant role in creating
organizations more sustainable (Brockhaus, et al., 2013). The importance of
GHRM is contributed to achieve environmental sustainability (Nejati, et al.,
2017) (Dumont, et al., 2017) (Donohue & Torugsa, 2016) (Renwick, et al., 2016).
The GHRM is named as the ‘environmental” human resource management that is
an important tool for implementing the organizational sustainable development
strategy successfully (Renwick, D. W. S., Redman, T., & Maguire, S., 2013).

Research Question

What are the factors influencing Green Human Resource Management?

Research Objective

The main objective of this study is “To identify the factors influencing
Green Human Resource Management”.
Methodology

This study is an Empirical study which uses secondary data from previ-
ous studies of scholars. This extant literature is going through topics relating to
the Green HRM from different databases and journals. The systematic review of