The Elgar Companion to Human Resource Management Beyond the Sustainable Development Goals (Elgar Companions to the Sustainable Development Goals series)

This timely Companion explores the connection between the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Human Resource Management (HRM), the SDG–HRM nexus. Expert contributors explore in-depth this developing area for HRM research and practice, analyzing how businesses and HRM can support progress towards and beyond the 17 SDGs, and how these efforts benefit employees and organizations.

Chapters bring together academics and practitioners in the field to share thought-provoking conceptual and empirical insights into how HRM can contribute to the SDGs and address global challenges by seizing local opportunities across different geographic and cultural contexts. Including implications for quantitative and qualitative research, the Companion provides examples of managing people in organizations and presents a state-of-the-art overview to develop an agenda for future research. It responds to the need for HRM professionals to guide organizations and individuals through pressing, complex challenges using a more human-centered approach that respects planetary boundaries.

This Companion is a fundamental resource for scholars and students of Human Resource Management corporate sustainability, strategic management, leadership, public management, and cross-cultural management. Practitioners and policymakers in the field will also benefit from its practical insights.

Edited by Ina Aust, Professor of Human Resource Management and Corporate Social Responsibility/Sustainability, Louvain Research Institute in Management and Organizations (LouRIM), Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), Belgium, Fang Lee Cooke, Professor of Human Resource Management and Asia Studies, Department of Management, Monash Business School, Monash University, Australia and Judith Semeijn, Professor of Sustainable HRM, Faculty of Management, Open Universiteit, the Netherlands