Social Sustainability, Leadership and Human Resource Management

Abstract

One of the most significant expectations faced by managers today is to succeed in integrating sustainability into an organization’s functions (Ajmal et al., 2018). The goal of this special issue is to raise interest into topics related to social sustainability in the functions of leadership and human resource management (HRM). More specifically, knowledge and understanding are produced of the social and human dimensions of organizational life in different organizational and socio-cultural settings. The theme of this special issue is still rather new and dispersed in both management research and management practice. Therefore, we present several significant perspectives that we believe are of relevance to learning more about social sustainability, leadership and HRM. The case studies in this issue provide in-depth, rich and multiple information about various real-life events and phenomena in the context of the theme.