Green HRM Practices in The Banking Sector – An Employee Perspective

Abstract

Green Human Resource Management has become a strategic business option for the organizations in order to gain competitive advantage, increased efficiencies and sustainable use of resources.  This paper  aims to  analyze the  perceptions  of the employees  towards  Green HRM practices and it assess the  correlation  between the  demographic factors  of the employees and their  perceptions towards  the Green HRM practices in the selected study units. The present research study adopts Exploratory Research Design. Both the primary and secondary data sources will be utilized by the researcher in order to draw conclusions from the findings of this study. Primary data will be collected from the selected sample respondents through questionnaire method. The sampling units identified for the present study involves seven banking organizations comprising both publicand privatesector banking organizations located in the Hyderabad Metropolitan Region. Stratified Random Sampling Techniquewas applied in order to draw the sample respondents from the identified sampling units in the study area. 20 employees  from  each  selected banking  organization were  identified as the  sample respondents  and hence,  the sample size  fixed for this study purpose was 140 from the  selected seven banking organizations in the study area. In order to draw the statistical inferences from the data analysis, statistical tools like correlation matrix, Factor Analysis, Anova, Kaiser Meyer Olkin and Bartlett’s test were applied.The study concludes that there exists a significant association between the educational qualifications and experience of the employees and their perception towards Green HRM practices.