Investigating Green Human Resource Practices in the Healthcare Sector: A Joint Application of Balanced Scorecard and SIR Method

摘要

Today, human resources are the most important factor in organizations, and the “Green” concept has become important concept around the world. So, greening human capital of an organization can be an effective way for achieving green firm. The purpose of this study is introducing a conceptual modelling for investigating green practices in the base of human resources balanced scorecard (HRBSC) by using superiority and inferiority ranking (SIR) method. SIR is almost a new MCDM method, and by using this, we can obtain both partially and completely ranking faster. In this way, we extracted the most important green practices according to the literature, and also we used expert opinions from the healthcare system. As the result, the most key practices known as “green recruitment” and “environmental training”. Managers can turn hospital's culture into green and reduce environmental effects on the way of improving the healthcare system by the results.