Green Work-Life Balance: A New Perspective for Green HRM

Viola Muster and Ulf Schrader

Zeitschrift fuer Personalforschung. German Journal of Research in Human Resource Management, 2011, vol. 25, issue 2, 140-156

Abstract: This paper proposes that Green HRM can meet its full potential only by considering employees in their twofold role as producers and consumers. Employees learn different kinds of behaviour not exclusively at the workplace, but also in private life. Since reciprocal interactions between working life and private life occur, a “green work-life balance concept” is suggested to facilitate environmentally friendly behaviour in both life domains. The concept offers chances not only for the environment, but also for the company and its employees by increasing, for example, work motivation and job retention. However, challenges like employees’ reactance to allow corporate influence on private life need to be addressed.

Keywords: Green HRM; work-life balance; consumption; employees; environment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M12 M14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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