Much has been written about the role of human resources professionals in creating sustainable organizations. However, despite recognition that organizational human resources functions have an important role to play in sustainability, researchers tend to focus on strategic issues and sustainability. This higher-order focus has often meant that practical, operational-level advice has been overlooked. This article addresses that gap by presenting a framework of suggested sustainable recruitment and selection practices. This framework is applicable to practitioners and acts as a curriculum for educators. Almost 90 specific environmental, economic and social sustainability practices in recruitment and selection were revealed in the data collection process. A prioritized top 10 list of practices is recommended for immediate implementation.
Purpose -Research problems focused on sustainability, such as changes to procurement practices, are new which necessitate new approaches to research methods. The purpose of this paper is to describe the application of an arts-based inquiry technique to supplement a mixed-methods approach. Design/methodology/approach -This paper presents an application of arts-based inquiry techniques as part of the qualitative analysis regime to communicate the approaches adopted by Australian organisations introducing sustainable procurement utilising the medium of collage. Findings -Arts-based inquiry is found to offer organisational research several complementary features. It engages multiple audiences in different "ways of seeing" and engaging with research. Originality/value -Arts-based techniques demonstrated in this paper offer sustainability and other researchers a complementary method of inquiry, to communicate change in society by opening the discourse between art, transdisciplinarity and sustainability, and to engage with multiple audiences in the process of change.
This paper examines the relationship between organisations and their ability to contribute to sustainable development through sustainable procurement. Organisations, particularly corporations and government command an increasingly powerful influence on the economy and society and are required to serve a wide range of stakeholders, including the community, shareholders, employees, customers and suppliers. In total, this sector has the potential to exercise substantial power because of the enormous value of its purchasing expenditure. The paper explores the progress of organisations towards sustainable procurement as part of moving towards becoming a sustainable organisation. To demonstrate this transition, the paper uses a framework based on the phase model of sustainability proposed in' Organizational Change for Corporate Sustainabtlity by Dunphy et al. This framework outlines six phases in a progression towards sustainable procurement (rejection, non-responsiveness, compliance, efficiency, strategic proactivity, sustainable organisation) as part of moving towards becoming a sustainable organisation. development-selection, design and synergies of applied tools',
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