Sustainable Human Resource Management - HRMGT546 (2020)

Environmental concerns, global warming most particularly, are increasingly pressing across the world. Organisations must consider new ways of managing staff to handle these challenges. New performance indicators must be devised and implemented. New skills must be identified and learned. The environmental problems we face are, at least in part, the product of a failure to consider externalities and long-term costs and benefits in our decisions. It is therefore appropriate to introduce such considerations to HR. What HR practices best deal with these externalities? What HR practices best address the long-term?