Sustainability and Human Resource Management: Developing Sustainable Business Organizations

  • 10h 6m
  • Ina Ehnert, Klaus J. Zink, Wes Harry (eds)
  • Springer
  • 2014

The role of HRM in developing sustainable business organizations is increasingly attracting attention. Sustainability can be used as a principle for HRM itself and the tasks of Sustainable HRM are twofold. On the one hand it fosters the conditions for individual employee sustainability and develops the ability of HRM systems to continuously attract, regenerate and develop motivated and engaged employees by making the HRM system itself sustainable. On the other hand Sustainable HRM contributes to the sustainability of the business organizations through cooperation with the top management, key stakeholders and NGOs and by realising economic, ecological, social and human sustainability goals. This book provides a comprehensive review of the new area of Sustainable HRM and of research from different disciplines like sustainable work systems, ergonomics, HRM, linking sustainability and HRM. It brings together the views of academics and practitioners and provides many ideas for conceptual development, empirical exploration and practical implementation. This publication intends to advance the international academic and practice-based debates on the potential of sustainability for HRM and vice versa. In 19 chapters, 26 authors from five continents explore the role of HRM in developing economically, socially and ecologically sustainable organizations, the concept of Sustainable HRM and the role of HRM in developing Sustainable HRM systems and how sustainability and HRM are conceptualized and perceived in different areas of the world.

In this Book

  • Sustainability and Human Resource Management─Developing Sustainable Business Organizations
  • Sustainability and HRM─An Introduction to the Field
  • Social Sustainability and Quality of Working Life─A Human Factors Perspective on Sustainable HRM
  • Sowing Seeds for Sustainability in Work Systems
  • Human-Resources Mindfulness─Promoting Health in Knowledge-Intensive SMEs
  • Corporate Human Capital and Social Sustainability of Human Resources─Towards an Integrative Measurement Framework
  • Enterprise Sustainability and HRM in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises─A Decent Work Perspective
  • Striking a Balance between Work Effort and Resource Regeneration─Vitality as a Sustainable Performance Concept
  • The Model of Negative Externality for Sustainable HRM
  • A Stakeholder Perspective for Sustainable HRM─Literature Review and a Research Agenda
  • Fostering Corporate Sustainability─Integrative and Dynamic Approaches to Sustainable HRM
  • Paradox as a Lens for Theorizing Sustainable HRM─Mapping and Coping with Paradoxes and Tensions
  • Practitioner’s View on Sustainability and HRM─The Case of a German Bank
  • Sustainable HRM in the US─The Influence of National Context
  • Sustainable HRM in East and Southeast Asia
  • Sustainable HRM in Europe─Diverse Contexts and Multiple Bottom Lines
  • Sustainable HRM in Peruvian Companies─An Exploratory Study
  • Sustainability and HRM in International Supply Chains
  • The Relevance of the Vision of Sustainability to HRM Practice
  • The Future of Sustainable HRM─Concluding Thoughts and Ways Forward
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