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Paradox as a Lens for Theorizing Sustainable HRM

Mapping and Coping with Paradoxes and Tensions

verfasst von : Ina Ehnert

Erschienen in: Sustainability and Human Resource Management

Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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This conceptual chapter discusses the strategic potential of sustainability as a concept for Human Resource Management (HRM). Aligning sustainability to HRM allows thinking about new solutions to solve HR problems such as HR shortages, employee health or HR development, to foster the proactive role of HRM in developing sustainable business organizations or to extend the understanding of HRM performance. However, realizing efficient and effective as well as sustainable HRM systems may create paradoxical choice situations and tensions that need to be actively coped with. The objective of this chapter is to explain first how organizations and HRM have responded to tensions from a historical perspective, second, how HRM can cope with potential tensions arising from efforts to make organizations more sustainable.

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Titel: Paradox as a Lens for Theorizing Sustainable HRM
verfasst von: Ina Ehnert
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Buch: Sustainability and Human Resource Management
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-37523-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-642-37524-8

Copyright-Jahr: 2014
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37524-8_11

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