Designing Sustainable HRM
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 (31 August 2021) | Viewed by 153533
Special Issue Editor
Interests: sustainable HRM; strategic HRM; sustainable careers; talent management
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Dear Colleagues,
At present, both employees and employers face many challenges. The 24/7 society, characterized by a perfectionist approach to work, causes emotional strain on employees; an aging society supposes prolonged work-life expectancies and forces organizations to rethink the way human resources are managed. Eventually, Industry 4.0, based on the rapid development of future-creating technologies such as AR, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, etc., assumes the challenge of ‘the future of work’ for both employers and employees while emphasizing the need to pay attention to the design of human resources management in a sustainable way.
This Special Issue aims to collect theoretical knowledge and empirical evidence around designing sustainable HRM. This emerging field of research encourages scientists from different scientific fields to contribute and bring together your ideas and insights on a wide range of issues. Particularly relevant is identifying how to redesign HRM in the face of “future work” challenges. Discourse on key characteristics of sustainable HRM and its contents is still lacking in empirical evidence and practical solutions.
We encourage contributions that address issues related (but not limited) to the following areas:
- How do emerging technologies affect work processes, and what tensions are caused?
- What are the challenges of an aging society and how can an organization ensure a sustainable career and high performance?
- What are the challenges of a 24/7 society and how can an organization ensure a sustainable HRM?
- What approaches dominate as a theoretical background for sustainable HRM?
- What are the main characteristics of a sustainable HRM?
- How do the characteristics of a sustainable HRM manifest in terms of their content?
- What is the linkage between sustainable HRM characteristics and employees’ mental and physical health?
- What is the linkage between sustainable HRM characteristics and organizational performance?
- How can we measure sustainability in human resource management?
- What is the role of leaders in designing sustainable HRM?
Prof. Asta Savanevičienė
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Sustainable HRM
- Designing
- Characteristics of sustainable HRM
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