Sustainability and human-centred human resource management

This chapter focuses on sustainability and human-centred human resource management (HRM). Human-centred HRM is a normative approach that argues that economic, technological, social and ecological challenges and opportunities should be worked on for the benefit of a large variety of stakeholders, including organisations, individuals and broader societies. It is an important way of implementing the human-centred agenda for the future of work that the International Labour Organization is promoting in a world characterised by a number of grand challenges such as climate change, demographic change, digitalisation and globalisation. This chapter critically examines business and employment practices from the sustainability and HRM angle and highlights implications for research and practice in the broad context of work and employment. It points to several research avenues for future research that should take into account specific contexts such as national economic conditions, institutional environment and culture, technology, types of industry, firms, and categories of the workforce.