What is the role of Human Resources Management (HRM) in the implementation of a Sustainable Development Program?

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Nowadays, Sustainable Development is a movement that is increasing in our society. Companies are progressively realizing the stakes of such policies, and are willing to have a try at it. However, it is important to guide them through this process, which can be disastrous when not lead the "right" way. The implementation of Sustainable Development policies in the companies often start with environmental issues, which are usually seen as the main stakes, rather than with social issues. The social dimension is not usually the main part of their sustainable development reports. It is however important not to forget the point of involving human resources in the process.There are many definitions for sustainable development.

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[...] In conclusion Human Resource Management deals with people and managing them. It has evolved through the centuries and managers have now understood that employees are individuals with needs and desires. Considering this, HRM is about recruiting managing, training, motivating and retaining people. That is how Reward Management Strategy has become an important managerial tool for the organizations success. Reward Strategy has for aim to motivate and retain employees by rewarding them for achieving objectives. Many theorists have discussed several models and theories about motivating employees. [...]

[...] There was no performance element included. With the new reward system, staff pay rises are now based on individual performance. O2's compensation director notes that the next task is to merge the existing employees onto the new terms and conditions. However, it was thought that the different pay scales had not caused problems between employees as the company had been very open about the two levels of pay. d.Other companies Glaxo-Wellcome as a world leader in pharmaceutical research and knowing that long-term investment is the only alternative for survival at the top, has a reward strategy of paying salaries at the upper quartile level to attract, develop, motivate and retain quality research staff. [...]

[...] Norlife Norlife is a supplier of retail financial services products in the UK. This market is characterised by an intensive competition. In order to obtain more value from Norlife's employees, the HR department introduced a new reward strategy based on the principle of job families. All jobs are grouped into eight families that are on six different levels. For example, staff who deal with customer queries were placed in the job family “sales support” at level 6 (the lowest level), whereas directors are in the “strategy and policy” job family at level 1. [...]

[...] Part 3 - An interview with the direct line manager of the nominee, using a third type of questionnaire. Each nomination is accepted on the basis of the quality committee review for the quarter. The quality committee consists of eight representatives of each area of the business and includes the general manager as its chairperson, at least two executives and the quality systems manager. Each nomination is reviewed for acceptance on the basis of the criteria described above, whether there is any disciplinary action pending for the nominee. [...]

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