Elgar Companion to Human Resource Management Beyond the Sustainable Development Goals

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

‘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.’

• Contents1 Introduction 1Ina Aust, Fang Lee Cooke and Judith SemeijnPART I THE SDG-HRM NEXUS2 “No poverty” (SDG 1), “Zero hunger” (SDG 2) and HRM 16Chandima Hettiarchchi, Sepideh Parsa and Ian Roper3 “Good health and well-being for all” (SDG 3) and HRM 30David E. Guest4 “Quality education for all” (SDG 4) and HRM 46Judith Semeijn and Beatrice van der Heijden5 “Gender equality” (SDG 5) and HRM 60Astrid Reichel and Marie-Thérèse Claes6 “Environment” (SDGs 6, 7, 11, 13, 14, and 15) and HRM 73Shuang Ren , Andrea Kim , Sajia Ferdous,, Hanbo Shim, and Susan E. Jackson7 ‘“Decent work and economic growth’” (SDG 8) and HRM 88Brian Matthews and Tom Baum8 “Peace, justice and strong institutions” (SDG16) and HRM 101Camilla Scola, Angela Ocampo, and Matthieu de Nanteuil9 “Partnerships for the Goals” (SDG 17) and HRM 117Peggy De Prins and Kirsten Vanderplanken10 Practical challenges and opportunities at the SDGs-HRM nexus 133Paul Baldassari, Sharawn Tipton, and Sarah AlbertPART II REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE SDG-HRM NEXUS11 SDGs and HRM in Sub-Saharan Africa 149Aminu Mamman, Bala Yusuf Yunusa, Nafisatu Irene Okhade, andEmmanuel Yeboah-Assiamah12 SDGs and HRM in the Arab countries of the Middle East and NorthAfrica 168Katharina Kilian-Yasin13 SDGs and HRM in East Asia 184Fang Lee Cooke, Katsuyuki Kubo and Byoung-Hoon Lee14 SDGs and HRM in Southeast Asia (ASEAN) 201Wes Harry15 SDGs and HRM in Central and Eastern European Countries 218Asta Savanevičienč and Živilč Stankevičičtč16 SDGs and HRM in Southern Europe 235Rosalia Diaz-Carrion, Álvaro López-Cabrales, Macarena López-Fernández, and Susana Pasamar17 SDGs and HRM in Northern and Western Europe 258Mick Brookes and Chris Brewster18 SDGs and HRM in Australia and New Zealand 271Joe Cooper, Fiona Edgar*, Nataliya Podgorodnichenko, and LynnaireSheridanPART III THEORIZING ON THE SDG-HRM NEXUS19 SDGs and HRM from a global development perspective 288Rory Donnelly20 SDGs and HRM from a comparative institutional theory perspective 302Christine Bischoff and Geoffrey Wood21 Innovation for SDGs and implications for HRM 313Fang Lee Cooke22 SDGs and HRM from a critical theory perspective 326Marco Guerci and Luca Carollo23 SDGs and HRM from a changing purpose of the firm perspective 341Brian Matthews, Michael Muller-Camen, and Michal Lemanski24 SDGs and HRM from a paradox theory perspective 354Ina Aust and Anja ShadabiPART IV TWIN TRANSFORMATION AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS25 An “‘SDG first”’ agenda for the development and deployment of AI inHRM 374Anne Keegan26 Quantitative research on SDGs and HRM 388Philip Yang27 Qualitative research on SDGs and HRM: Is scenario planning a game-changer? 400Laverne Chore and Julia Brandl28 Advancing the SDGs through HRM research 416Fang Lee Cooke, Judith Semeijn and Ina AustAppendix 1 433