Sustainable HRM: The Past Present and Future

Abstract

In 2003 the first article on sustainable HRM was published in the literature and I have been acknowledged for this innovative concept with the distinguished Emerald Literati Club award At that time sustainable HRM focused on highlighting how organisations showed limited importance to employees and their family health and well being while maximizing profit Since 2003 many new definitions of sustainable HRM and theories/perspectives evolved over the last two decades to shape sustainable HRM as a new field within HRM The most recent definition 2021which I proposed, is Sustainable HRM is designed to provide a sustainability oriented vision of HRM systems, policies and practices to synthesize and achieve the competing and inconsistent financial, environmental and human/social wellbeing outcomes of corporate business strategy”