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Sustainability and HRM: A Model and Suggestions for Future Research

In: The Future of Employment Relations

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  • Ina Ehnert

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Sustainability is on the agenda of many organizations worldwide and has recently raised interest from human resources management (HRM).* Climate change, water shortages, the problem that the world population consumes more resources per year than are produced, education, demographic developments, and increasing strains from business activities on employees has given reason to criticize widespread assumptions about how organizations can be managed in the long term (for example, Bansal, 2005). Focusing on the market model which is successful for short-term economic success fails with regard to long-term effects on the environment and the wider system (Dunphy and Griffith, 1998). One reason is an over-occupation with efficient exploitation of natural, social, and human resources in organizations (see Docherty et al., 2008; Wilkinson, 2005) coupled with a lack of effort to sustain the companies’ resource base as long as this is not regarded as economically rational (Ehnert, 2009a).

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  • Ina Ehnert, 2011. "Sustainability and HRM: A Model and Suggestions for Future Research," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Adrian Wilkinson & Keith Townsend (ed.), The Future of Employment Relations, chapter 12, pages 215-237, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-34942-1_12
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230349421_12
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    1. Živilė Stankevičiūtė & Asta Savanevičienė, 2018. "Raising the Curtain in People Management by Exploring How Sustainable HRM Translates to Practice: The Case of Lithuanian Organizations," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(12), pages 1-31, November.
    2. Vuk Mirčetić & Tatjana Ivanović & Snežana Knežević & Vesna Bogojević Arsić & Tijana Obradović & Darjan Karabašević & Svetlana Vukotić & Tomislav Brzaković & Miljan Adamović & Stefan Milojević & Marko , 2022. "The Innovative Human Resource Management Framework: Impact of Green Competencies on Organisational Performance," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(5), pages 1-19, February.
    3. Živilė Stankevičiūtė & Asta Savanevičienė, 2018. "Designing Sustainable HRM: The Core Characteristics of Emerging Field," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(12), pages 1-23, December.

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