Building sustainable societies through human-centred human resource management: emerging issues and research opportunities

In this paper, we argue that adopting a human-centred approach to human resource management (HRM) will contribute building sustainable workforces, organizations, communities and societies against backdrop of global pandemic political economic uncertainty. The social cost the continue be felt for years come, road recovery should sustainable, with built-in climate actions as part socio-economic rejuvenation programme. We draw on several cross-cutting themes illustrate how use digital technology remote working, example, may impact workers from different backgrounds in diverse ways. call researchers engage in-depth qualitative research identify new phenomena related work HRM context accelerating adoption post-Covid explore power dynamics forms exclusion labour market workplaces. Findings these studies can positive policy prevent exacerbation existing inequality exclusion. They also ways conceptualizing models practices extending theories.