Objective: Analyze the current state of national and international scientific articles in the area of Administration on Human Resource Management (HRM) policies and practices within the context of sustainability, published between 2000 and 2020, with the aim of identifying future research directions and proposing research agendas for the academic field.
Methodology: This study adopted a systematic literature review with qualitative analysis. 161 articles were identified and, after applying exclusion criteria, a final sample consisting of 45 articles published in international journals was obtained for the review.
Results and conclusions: The results indicate that Green Human Resource Management (Green HRM) is the most common in the Sustainable HRM literature. It was also identified that “Recruitment and selection”, “Training, development and education” and “Compensation and rewards” are the most cited policies in the literature. However, “Working conditions” is less frequent in articles.
Originality: This article has a time frame that covers the first two decades of a century of major transformations in organizations at a global level, which impacted the way in which Human Resource policies and practices are perceived, and for suggesting the need for research that explore the impact of Sustainable HRM on the ESG (environmental, social and governance) agenda of companies and on attracting and retaining professionals from new generations.
Limitations: The final sample does not contain articles published in national journals and, in addition, 22 articles had to be excluded from the sample due to restricted access.
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