GREEN HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANUFACTURING PERFORMANCE

Abstract

Recently environmental matters become important issues around sociality which encouraged organization to improve their environmental performance. For example the activities and operation of manufacturing companies can contribute to pollution, waste, resources depletion, reduction biodiversity and ecosystem integrity that can affect the overall performance of organization. This paper aims to discuss the concept of green human resources management (GHRM) environmental management system (EMS) and environmental manufacturing performance (EMP) with providing conceptual framework of GHRM, EMS and EMP. GHRM is important factor to ensure the sustainability of EMP through making improvement on the function/key areas of GHRM that integrate with corporate environmental management. Meanwhile, EMS as moderate factor of GHRM towards EMP. EMS aimed to promote continual improvement in organization environmental performance and EMS also provides framework/tools that helps organization achieve its corporate environmental objective through control its operations and activities. EMP can be measures through efficient resource usage; waste and pollution reduction; and environmental ethics.