Human Resource Development and Sustainability

Valerie Anderson ()
Additional contact information
Valerie Anderson: University of Portsmouth

A chapter in Ethics and Human Resource Development, 2024, pp 203-229 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Growing ecological and social sustainability concerns challenge traditional business, strategy, and HRD paradigms that focus on economic expansion through unlimited production and consumption of materials, energy, food, and water. In the twenty-first century the HRD field must respond to the ‘sustainability turn’ to focus on appropriate ways to ensure work organizations preserve rather than deplete vital natural resources, social well-being, and human rights. This chapter examines the concept of sustainability and the extent to which HRD theory, research, and practice have responded to the sustainability turn. The argument of this chapter is that a paradigmatic change and a wide-ranging reshaping of HRD assumptions, practices, and priorities is necessary in response to the sustainability turn. However, it also argues that traditional approaches to HRD constrain the ability of HRD scholars, researchers, and practitioners to respond to the sustainability turn. The chapter concludes that the sustainability turn provides HRD educators with the opportunity to lead in crafting, constructing, and delivering an HRD pedagogy to equip scholars and practitioners with tools, skills, values, and capabilities to deliver sustainable value creation and long-term values-driven engagement with social and environmental priorities.

Keywords: Sustainability; Pedagogy; Critical HRD; Actionable knowledge; Standards (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-38727-2_11

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9783031387272

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-38727-2_11

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Springer Books from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().