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Sustainability in Human
Resource Management
Norbert Thom, Robert Zaugg, Adrian Blum
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Companies
Individual
Work-Life-Balance
Strategies Objectives
Instruments Methods
Processes Structures
Work-Life-Balance
♀: Growing importance of professional career
♂: Growing importance of private and family life
Individual Responsibility
Increased autonomy and self-determination in questions of
professional development
Employability
Focus on continuous development and professional agility rather than
specific activity
*The project was kindly supported by the Swiss Federal Office of Personnel and the European
Association of Personnel Management (EAPM).
Sample
• Company size: 40% >500 empl; 47% 50-500 empl; 13% <50 empl
Health 4 Employability
Quality of life
Environment 9
„I am of the opinion that our company has a particularly innovative concept for sustainable
human resource management .“
40
35 37
30
25
Percentage
23 24
20
15
10
5 7
5
4
0
agree partly agree tend to tend to partly do not agree
entirely agree disagree disagree at all
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Deployment: working-time
Flexible working-hour models are conducive to improved work-life-
balance. Especially so are
• Job sharing
• Sabbaticals
• Telework
• Long-term or lifelong working time schemes
Flexible working hours are used in more than two thirds of the
questioned companies, though mostly for individual cases only.
Systematic implementation is still very rare.
Individual responsibility
Europe 3,31
Spain 3,22
England 3,54
Italy 2,98
France 2,80
Netherlands 3,89
Austria 3,75
Germany 3,16
Switzerland 3,35
1 2 3 4 5 6
Staff retention
Non-material incentives
Europe 4,25
Spain 3,86
England 4,46
Italy 3,32
France 3,24
Netherlands 4,68
Austria 4,00
Germany 3,62
Switzerland 3,66
1 2 3 4 5 6
Disemployment
Sustainable HRM must take into account the needs of employees laid off
or leaving on their own initiative in order not to harm the company image
on labour and sales markets.
Conclusions
Further steps
References