Foundations of sustainable human resource management

Recognising the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and increasing demands from employees and other key stakeholders, organisations are keenly aware of the need for sustainability in their human resource management practices. This unit focuses on the ways in which sustainable approaches to HRM can address important contemporary challenges including environmental uncertainty, technological change, employee wellbeing and the broader impacts of business on society and the environment. It does this by introducing models, theories and examples related to contemporary human resource management, including sustainable approaches to human resource management to respond to the challenges and opportunities faced by contemporary organisations.