As we face new technological developments and new ways of working, rapid economic growth, globalisation, climate change, growing inequality and Covid-19, no-one can deny that times are changing fast. Therefore, organisations’ human resource management also needs to adapt: this is where Sustainable HRM (or SHRM) comes into the picture.

But what is Sustainable Human Resource Management? How does it differ from HRM, and what makes it a truly new way of looking at the management of people and o...