PERCEPTION OF EMPLOYEES TOWARDS GREEN HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES -- AN EMPIRICAL STUDY IN THE BANKING INDUSTRY.

Corporate firms affirm that a more remarkable coordination among the HRM practices and natural concerns causes the organizations to implement environmental management system effectively and adequately. The systematic prospects of help from human resources to environmental management goals is termed as Green Human Resource Management. This paper examines the perception of the banking employees towards Green HRM practices and it analyzes the association between the demographic factors of the employees and their perception towards Green HRM practices in the selected banking units. The present study adopts Descriptive research design and both primary and secondary data will be utilized for the study. For this purpose, the study focuses on the public and private sector banking units in the Hyderabad region of Telangana state. Selective Random sampling technique was applied and 120 sample respondents were identified for the study. Statistical tools like chi-square test and Anova were applied. The study concludes that there exists a significant association between the education levels and experience levels of the employees and their perception towards Green HRM practices. The study further concludes that the Green HRM practices have a significant influence on the employees in the banking industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]