Sustainable Human Resource Management: Literature look over

Sustainable Human Resource Management: Literature look over

Abstract: This study intends to review existing literature on sustainable human resource management (Sustainable HRM) with the plan of digging up in the literature for an improved perception of the current state of the research field and the research gaps, along with to propose future directions for the research. This paper provides a review of the discourse from pioneering stage to the current one. Sustainable HRM is a contemporary and an evolving discourse. Being an emerging field of study, it doesn’t have a single definition as well as no definite set of practices This field of study demands more research contributions from different contexts which will highlight its different understandings in different contexts, its different practices, different related problems, and their solutions. For better contribution, first there is a need to study the evolution of this field of study and then make progress. In this regard, this study contributes to this field of study by shedding light on the history of human resource management (HRM), discussing changing perspectives in HRM, talking about emergence of sustainability agenda in HRM, conferring beginning of a contemporary field, having a discussion on work done and future avenues in the field of Sustainable HRM

Keywords: HRM, Strategic HRM, Sustainable HRM, CSR, Sustainability, Sustainable Development