3 - Fabíola Kaczam Universidade Federal de Santa Maria - UFSM - Universidade Federal de Santa Maria
Responsável pela submissão
4 - Anderson de Barros Dantas -
5 - Wesley Vieira da Silva Universidade Federal de Alagoas - UFAL - Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade (FEAC)
Reumo
In the views of Morioka & Carvalho (2016), research on sustainable management of people and social sustainability in organizations also presents some ambiguous results. Kramar (2013) shows that the literature on this topic has developed in the last decade and represents an attempt to deal with the relationship between people management practices and results that go beyond those that are predominantly financial. Such literature is still fragmented and, as mentioned by Macini et al. (2017), it is still quite diverse and full of difficulties.
This paper aims to present a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) about the relationship between social sustainability and sustainable management of people in organizations. It intends to contribute with scientific knowledge, more specifically with the Triple Bottom Line (TBL) of sustainability. This study was built based on a research question defined ex-ante: What is the state of the art of research on the relationship between social sustainability and the sustainable management of people in organizations?
In the theoretical background, we summarized the literature about the social dimension of the Triple Bottom Line (TBL) and, Sustainable Management of Human Resource in Organizations
This study intends to search for evidence in the scientific literature to answer the research question defined in the introduction of the work. For this, we used the SLR research protocol developed by Tranfield et al. (2003). This protocol has three steps: Planning the Review; Conducting the Review and, Dissemination of Knowledge.
The study reports that, although the social dimension is important for the success of organizations, many understand that investing in the social pillar is a high cost for companies. Another result of the research shows that the literature on social sustainability can be divided into three categories, according to its main focus: (1) corporate social responsibility, (2) sustainable human resource management, and (3) sustainable development. We also identified several appointments for future studies with an impact on sustainable development.
In general, the research corpus (30 papers) have a very close theoretical relationship, and there is this convergence in the citation of classical authors about the subject of study, evidenced by the relationships between them. The literature indicates the importance of integration between sustainability and business. The challenge discussed in several publications focuses on how to integrate aspects of sustainability into specific decisions to be made, such as valuing the human dimension. The studies also reveal the emphasis given to the economic and environmental aspects of TBL.
Kramar, R. (2014) Beyond strategic human resource management: is sustainable human resource management the next approach?; Macini, N., Bansi, A. C. & Ferreira Caldana, A. C. (2017) Actions and indicators for sustainable human resources management; Morioka, S. N. & de Carvalho, M. M. (2016) A systematic literature review towards a conceptual framework for integrating sustainability performance into business; Tranfield, D., Denyer, D & Smart, P. (2003) Towards a Methodology for Developing Evidence-Informed Management Knowledge by Means of Systematic Review.