The Sustainable HRM-SDG Nexus: Contributions to global sustainable development
(2024) Social Sustainability and Good Work in Organizations — ISBN: [9781003306436], published
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- As companies are under pressure to show their commitment and progress to sustainability goals, they align their strategy and activity to globally accepted initiatives like the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). This raises the question of how SDGs could be connected to HRM strategies and practices to combine the global sustainable development transition with the transition of developing more sustainable organisations. Sustainable Human Resource Management (Sustainable HRM) is a key element for companies’ sustainability strategy and transformation. While research on the dimensions and different types of Sustainable HRM is increasing, practitioners are striving to evolve their HRM systems to include elements that advance overall goals like the SDGs. This chapter bridges the main elements of Sustainable HRM and potential contribution to SDGs by highlighting the wide range of interconnection of Sustainable HRM practices to the SDGs and their 169 targets. Based on previous research, we derive the areas of Business Human Rights, Green HRM practices, support of migrants, diversity and inclusion management, health and well-being, and learning as core elements of Sustainable HRM. This chapter further explores how each of these elements can support the SDGs and their corresponding targets. We estimate that they have links to all 17 SDGs and more than 40% of 169 corresponding targets. This highlights the importance of Sustainable HRM for advancing the SDGs. Finally, it indicates practical implications for HR professionals while encouraging future research of direct and indirect effects of Sustainable HRM on achieving the SDGs.
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Baldassari, P., Muller-Camen, M., & Aust-Gronarz, I. (2024). The Sustainable HRM-SDG Nexus: Contributions to global sustainable development. In Jebsen, Simon; Lueg, Klarissa (ed.), Social Sustainability and Good Work in Organizations (first edition). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003306436