Sustainable human resources management : Constructed and negotiated by HR professionals

This present paper analyses how HR professionals construct and negotiate sustainable human resources management (HRM). The empirical data is collected through five interviews with six informants and in the Swedish working context. A Foucauldian inspired qualitative discourse analysis reveals how sus...

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Main Author: Uotila, Aliisa
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Umeå universitet, Sociologiska institutionen 2020
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-173160
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Summary:This present paper analyses how HR professionals construct and negotiate sustainable human resources management (HRM). The empirical data is collected through five interviews with six informants and in the Swedish working context. A Foucauldian inspired qualitative discourse analysis reveals how sustainability is seen as an important part of HR, and moreover, societal sustainability is seen as the main focus of HR. Contrary to most of the prior sustainability HR research, the discourse of ecological sustainability was not activated to the same extent as the other societal discourses. Instead, the study showed that in the Swedish work context, the matters of health promotion, equality and diversity are seen as more essential.