Sağlık Kurumlarında Yeşil İnsan Kaynakları Yönetimi ve Uygulamaları

The main goal of health services provided by healthcare organizations is to improve human and community health. These goals, as an external benefit, also contribute to the living environment of human in multiple ways. Healthy individuals make a positive contribution to a healthy society and environment. The main operator of the service produced and offered in healthcare organizations is health personnel. Although very high technology is used, health care is provided in a labor-intensive environment. The efficient and effective service delivery of the health workforce is directly related to the human resources policies implemented by the organization. Green human resources policies, which have found new application areas in recent years, are also implemented and developed for sustainable management. Healthcare organizations, as per their activities; It develops waste management systems and environmental management systems that are sensitive to the environment and human health. The development and implementation of the environmental management system in healthcare organizations with green human resources practices will cause the external benefits of health services to be more evident. As a matter of fact, one of the goals of green human resources policies is to provide positive benefits for external stakeholders. Starting with the employment of healthcare personnel, ensuring that they work in the organization with green goals and sensitivity will be an important success of human resources management. This success will make it easier for healthcare organizations to adapt to extraordinary situations (pandemic, disaster, crisis, etc.). At the same time, the adoption of green HRM practices along with traditional HRM practices by healthcare organizations may increase the motivation of the personnel and help to ensure organizational sustainability. Providing services on the axis of environmental awareness and activity is also extremely important for the social image and usefulness of healthcare organizations. In this study, the applicability of green human resources policies, which are mostly adopted by production companies, by healthcare organizations was examined. In addition, it is aimed to contribute to Turkish literature in a theoretical framework and to raise awareness about the applicability of green human resources policies in healthcare organizations.