Sustainability Issues in Human Resource Management: Linkages, theoretical approaches, and outlines for an emerging field

Abstract

Sustainability has been subject of thought and reflection in the field of management for a long time. Only recently, however, does the link between sustainability and HR issues seem to have received attention. The main goal of this paper is to introduce this literature and their different approaches, to identify the benefit of this perspective for traditional HRM research, and to suggest first approaches towards an extended theoretical framework for SHRM. Finally, the paper proposes open research questions and outlines of a perhaps emerging field of research.