The Elgar Companion to Human Resource Management Beyond the Sustainable Development Goals: (Elgar Companions to the Sustainable Development Goals series)

This timely Companion explores the connection between the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Human Resource Management (HRM), the SDG–HRM nexus. Expert contributors explore in-depth this developing area for HRM research and practice, analyzing how businesses and HRM can support progress towards and beyond the 17 SDGs, and how these efforts benefit employees and organizations. Chapters bring together academics and practitioners in the field to share thought-provoking conceptual and empirical insights into how HRM can contribute to the SDGs and address global challenges by seizing local opportunities across different geographic and cultural contexts. Including implications for quantitative and qualitative research, the Companion provides examples of managing people in organizations and presents a state-of-the-art overview to develop an agenda for future research. It responds to the need for HRM professionals to guide organizations and individuals through pressing, complex challenges using a more human-centered approach that respects planetary boundaries. This Companion is a fundamental resource for scholars and students of Human Resource Management corporate sustainability, strategic management, leadership, public management, and cross-cultural management. Practitioners and policymakers in the field will also benefit from its practical insights.

Table of Contents:
Contents 1 Introduction 1 Ina Aust, Fang Lee Cooke and Judith Semeijn PART I THE SDG-HRM NEXUS 2 “No poverty” (SDG 1), “Zero hunger” (SDG 2) and HRM 16 Chandima Hettiarchchi, Sepideh Parsa and Ian Roper 3 “Good health and well-being for all” (SDG 3) and HRM 30 David E. Guest 4 “Quality education for all” (SDG 4) and HRM 46 Judith Semeijn and Beatrice van der Heijden 5 “Gender equality” (SDG 5) and HRM 60 Astrid Reichel and Marie-Thérèse Claes 6 “Environment” (SDGs 6, 7, 11, 13, 14, and 15) and HRM 73 Shuang Ren , Andrea Kim , Sajia Ferdous,, Hanbo Shim, and Susan E. Jackson 7 ‘“Decent work and economic growth’” (SDG 8) and HRM 88 Brian Matthews and Tom Baum 8 “Peace, justice and strong institutions” (SDG16) and HRM 101 Camilla Scola, Angela Ocampo, and Matthieu de Nanteuil 9 “Partnerships for the Goals” (SDG 17) and HRM 117 Peggy De Prins and Kirsten Vanderplanken 10 Practical challenges and opportunities at the SDGs-HRM nexus 133 Paul Baldassari, Sharawn Tipton, and Sarah Albert PART II REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE SDG-HRM NEXUS 11 SDGs and HRM in Sub-Saharan Africa 149 Aminu Mamman, Bala Yusuf Yunusa, Nafisatu Irene Okhade, and Emmanuel Yeboah-Assiamah 12 SDGs and HRM in the Arab countries of the Middle East and North Africa 168 Katharina Kilian-Yasin 13 SDGs and HRM in East Asia 184 Fang Lee Cooke, Katsuyuki Kubo and Byoung-Hoon Lee 14 SDGs and HRM in Southeast Asia (ASEAN) 201 Wes Harry 15 SDGs and HRM in Central and Eastern European Countries 218 Asta Savanevičienč and Živilč Stankevičičtč 16 SDGs and HRM in Southern Europe 235 Rosalia Diaz-Carrion, Álvaro López-Cabrales, Macarena López- Fernández, and Susana Pasamar 17 SDGs and HRM in Northern and Western Europe 258 Mick Brookes and Chris Brewster 18 SDGs and HRM in Australia and New Zealand 271 Joe Cooper, Fiona Edgar*, Nataliya Podgorodnichenko, and Lynnaire Sheridan PART III THEORIZING ON THE SDG-HRM NEXUS 19 SDGs and HRM from a global development perspective 288 Rory Donnelly 20 SDGs and HRM from a comparative institutional theory perspective 302 Christine Bischoff and Geoffrey Wood 21 Innovation for SDGs and implications for HRM 313 Fang Lee Cooke 22 SDGs and HRM from a critical theory perspective 326 Marco Guerci and Luca Carollo 23 SDGs and HRM from a changing purpose of the firm perspective 341 Brian Matthews, Michael Muller-Camen, and Michal Lemanski 24 SDGs and HRM from a paradox theory perspective 354 Ina Aust and Anja Shadabi PART IV TWIN TRANSFORMATION AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS 25 An “‘SDG first”’ agenda for the development and deployment of AI in HRM 374 Anne Keegan 26 Quantitative research on SDGs and HRM 388 Philip Yang 27 Qualitative research on SDGs and HRM: Is scenario planning a game- changer? 400 Laverne Chore and Julia Brandl 28 Advancing the SDGs through HRM research 416 Fang Lee Cooke, Judith Semeijn and Ina Aust Appendix 1 433

About the Author :
Edited by Ina Aust, Professor of Human Resource Management and Corporate Social Responsibility/Sustainability, Louvain Research Institute in Management and Organizations (LouRIM), Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), Belgium, Fang Lee Cooke, Professor of Human Resource Management and Asia Studies, Department of Management, Monash Business School, Monash University, Australia and Judith Semeijn, Professor of Sustainable HRM, Faculty of Management, Open Universiteit, the Netherlands

Review :
‘Aust, Cooke and Semeijn have taken a sprawling international literature and neatly connected the HRM and SDG dots. This book is bursting with case examples – successful and unsuccessful – that demonstrate the challenges in transforming SDGs from inspirational objectives to implementable change initiatives. Readers will appreciate the volume’s global perspectives, rigorous scholarship, and practical recommendations.’ ‘This is an excellent book that is invaluable to everyone who is deeply committed to understanding and advancing the field of Human Resource Management in these challenging times. The editors have outstanding careers in HRM and know the field extremely well. Fortunately for us they have gathered a superb collection of highly qualified authors who contributed outstanding chapters to help all readers become aware of the issues associated with taking HRM beyond the Sustainable Development Goals.’