Sustainable Human Resource Management in the Hospital Sector: A Review of Literature

Abstract

The field of personal management has undergone a significant change in the past decade. During the initial phases of sustainable practices—organisations seem to be responsible towards their society and environment along with a focus on financial profits. Building on sustainable management theory, ‘sustainable human resource management’ concept receives significant interest from management, academicians and scholars. Studies related to this area are limited and are still emerging in the developing country context. In this article, the literature review suggests that sustainability could be the driver of the hospital sector in the system. Sustainability in the hospital sector through sustainable human resource management practices is necessary to build and adapt a concrete sustainable practices structure. The various service sectors are focusing on embedding environmental sustainability and lesser focus has been given to the other three elements of sustainability that is the strategic, social and humanistic approach. The present article approaches headed for the full range implementation of sustainable human resource management practices in the hospital sector. In light of this, we proposed a model (SHRM—layout). We offer recommendations for the managing the hospital sector to implement these practices and influence others to maximise sustainable performance from the findings. The framework acts as a guide to organisations for incorporating sustainability practices in their management development plans.