Sustainable Human Resource Management A conceptual and exploratory a
Predictions are that sustainability becomes the next big topic for Human Resource Management after internationalization and globalization. This book gives new answers to these questions: - How can HRM contribute to attracting, developing and retainin
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Ina Ehnert
Sustainable Human Resource Management A Conceptual and Exploratory Analysis from a Paradox Perspective
Physica -Verlag A Springer Company
Contributions to Management Science
Ina Ehnert
Sustainable Human Resource Management A Conceptual and Exploratory Analysis from a Paradox Perspective
Physica‐Verlag A Springer Company
Dr. Ina Ehnert University of Bremen WING Building Wilhelm-Herbst-Straße 12 28359 Bremen Germany
Dissertation at the University of Bremen, July 2008 ISSN 1431-1941 ISBN 978-3-7908-2187-1 e-ISBN 978-3-7908-2188-8 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7908-2188-8 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2009926248 # Physica-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Physica-Verlag. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Cover design: WMXDesign GmbH, Heidelberg Printed on acid-free paper Physica-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg (www.springer.com)
Preface
By focusing on sustainability and paradoxes, Dr. Ina Ehnert has picked up two central challenges Human Resource Management rarely dealt with. The contribution of this dissertation results from the courage to handle both topics simultaneously and to convey to the reader in a comprehensive way that they are reciprocally referring to each other. To reach more sustainability in Human Resource Management, it is necessary to cope with paradoxes in a systematic way. Simultaneously, coping with paradoxes raises the need to look at the acquisition of human resources from a longer-term and more sustainable perspective. Organisations are only durably successful if they manage having access to critical and scarce human resources. If this assumption is accepted, it becomes economically rational to bear in mind the sources of resources for education and attitude and to develop and cherish them if necessary. These investments collide with short-term efficiency-oriented economic interests. Consequently, organisations have to learn to cope with the tensions and paradoxes at a strategic and operational level. Dr. Ehnert develops a framework for a Sustainable HRM from a paradox perspective by extending Strategic HRM and I wish that her study will be broadly recognised. University of Bremen January 2009
Prof. Dr. Georg Müller-Christ
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