Human Resource Management for Corporate Sustainability
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 September 2023) | Viewed by 37647
Special Issue Editor
Interests: human resource management; organizational behavior
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is our pleasure to announce a new Special Issue of Sustainability titled “Human Resource Management for Corporate Sustainability”.
HRM is an area of research and practice that has traditionally focused on managing people to improve organizational performance. However, this HRM function has become partly obsolete as companies increasingly need to take on a broader social commitment. This includes the need to focus not only on delivering economic value, but also social and environmental value. The current challenge is to ensure that the HRM strategy can be directed not only at providing value to owners, but also to other stakeholders (employees, members of society, future generations and natural/ecological resources). This new approach recognizes the importance of taking environmental and social concerns into consideration in the implementation of HRM, beyond financial results. The positive impact of HRM on these three dimensions (social, environmental/ecological and economic) is a major challenge for HRM. Following this new paradigm, recent research has linked HRM with corporate sustainability (CS), particularly from the sustainable HRM approach. However, although some progress has been made on the impact of HRM on CS, it is a field of research that is still emerging. Moreover, the climate crisis, the destruction of ecosystems, the unsustainable consumption of natural resources, growing economic inequality, job dissatisfaction, migration crises and growing mental health problems require a collective, prompt and effective response that involves organizations—hence the importance for organizations to engage in HRM that contributes to making them sustainable not only in financial terms, but also in ecological and social terms.
For this Special Issue, we are seeking papers which present new HRM approaches that positively impact CS by uncovering a set of HRM policies and practices that foster an organizational culture able to enhance CS. Research can also focus on determining the negative effects of some HRM approaches on CS. Therefore, the aim of this Special Issue is to invite papers that explore how HRM may affect CS.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Human resource management;
- Corporate sustainability;
- Organizational culture;
- Organizational behavior;
- Social and environmental health;
- Sustainable development;
- Sustainability practices;
- Sustainable performance;
- Green practices;
- Common welfare;
- Green behaviors, competencies and values;
- Employee well-being.
Dr. Jacob Guinot
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- human resource management
- corporate sustainability
- sustainable development
