Mousom Some, IOCL

Implementation of Green HRM Practices

Therefore, there are multiple benefit of adopting sustainability practices and implementing the Green HRM principles.

1. In the United Kingdom, Coca-Cola has teamed up with Merlin Entertainments to provide “reverse vending machines” where customers can get half-price theme park admission by recycling their plastic drink bottles.

We can transform our organization as a paperless organization by implementing the digital technology in greater way and providing incentives. Paperless policy framework in the organization would provide lot of saving of GHG (Green House Gas) in the environment. For the office use, we use lot of paper, prints, files which can be scraped by effective implementation Paperless policy framework. This may be incentivised by providing tab with all company related apps, intranet etc. to the employees. 1 kg of paper results in approximately

1kg of CO2 during its production (1.2kg of CO2 for unrecycled, and 0.7kg of CO2 for recycled paper). Therefore the following steps would be of great path forward towards sustainability

1. 1. Reduction of Paper budget by 90%

   2. Reduction of Office Printer by 90%

   3. All documents should be in soft form.

   4. Investment in cloud storage, tabs instead of physical document library and printer.

   5. No booklets for training, internal magazines etc.

   6. All official transaction should be though app based software.

2. People who adopt sustainable behaviour are more likely to make other beneficial adjustments. IKEA started its sustainability journey called Live Lagom (means Live with Right Quantity) in depth among a core group of its consumers. In line with this, IKEA customers started with a single action, such as minimising home food waste, but then go on to other domains, such as energy conservation. IKEA also saw a snowball effect, in which people began with little activities and progressed to larger ones. Purchasing LED light bulbs, for example, might lead to wearing warmer clothes and turning down the thermostat, insulating doors and windows to reduce heat loss, purchasing energy-efficient appliances, installing a programmed thermostat, and so on.

The initiative of saving transport fuel can be one of the biggest green initiatives of the organization. This will not only save the environment but also save the pie of country’s import bill. If transport communication of the employees with the office are converted from individual to group or collaborative level, significant amount of Carbon Dioxide (Around 0.1 MMTPA Co2) release at ambience can be saved. Using of group transportation in bus would save around 90% of the Green House Gas (GHG) emission compared to individual car transportation.