Green HRM Practices in Karnataka’s Manufacturing Sector: Drivers and Barriers

The rapid environmental degradation and its far-reaching impact on human health necessitated people to perceive and behave consciously.This lately received response, government intervention, and quintessential actions by the international regulatory bodies have positive and serious implications for environmental sustainability.Some large-scale enterprises in India have started to follow the standards mandatorily to generate 'ESG Reports'.However, the adoption of such reporting standards is difficult for the Indian SME sector because of its limited operational and financial capacity.However, the manufacturing sector, have immense scope to adopt sustainable practices voluntarily to reduce the organizational carbon footprint and contribute to the nation's sustainable goals.Green HRM is a recently emerged organizational practice focusing on reducing employee and organizational carbon footprint.The adoption of Green HRM practices has an immense scope in promoting environmental sustainability in the manufacturing sector.The focus of this paper is to identify the major drivers and barriers for the Green HRM practices in the manufacturing sector of Karnataka state, on the basis of secondary data.