From strategic HRM to sustainable HRM? Exploring a common-good approach

Speaker: Fang Lee Cooke, Monash Business School
Host: Yucheng Zhang, University of Southampton
When: 9:00-10:15 am, September 18, 2024 (China Time, UTC+8) 
Language: Chinese
Where: Zoom

Register link: https://www.xcdsystem.com/iacmr/forms/index.cfm?ID=RbU9zzm

Abstract

The emergence of sustainability discourse has provided new avenues and momentum for human resource management (HRM) scholars to extend existing lines of enquiry and to generate new ones. This has led to a surge of research interest in sustainability in the last decade, not least as a response to the growing environmental concerns and, more recently, to the Sustainable Development Goals launched by the United Nations in 2015. Increasingly, businesses are expected to pursue several goals, economic, ecological and social, instead of profit alone. Firms have been urged to reimagine their purpose as the licence to operate. This seminar explores the driving forces for a sustainable HRM agenda, varieties of sustainable HRM in existing literature and core arguments. It also identifies research opportunities as well as challenges in advancing the field of sustainable HRM research, in particular, in promoting common good HRM as one strand of sustainable HRM. The seminar offers several suggestions for research. 

Speaker’s bio

Fang Lee Cooke (PhD, University of Manchester, UK) is Distinguished Professor of Human Resource Management (HRM) and Asia Studies at Monash Business School, Monash University, Australia. She is also a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Previously, she was a full professor (since 2005) at Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK. Her research interests are in the areas of strategic HRM, knowledge management and innovation, outsourcing, international HRM, diversity and inclusion management, employment relations, migrant studies, HRM in the healthcare sector, digitalization and implications for employment and HRM; climate change, energy transition and the future of work; Sustainable Development Goals and the role of multinational firms.