There is a disconnect between the fields of human resources management (HRM) and sustainability.
Historically, human resource managers focused strictly on maximizing the efficiency of people operations.
Today, there is an opportunity—and a need—to leverage people strategy professionals to embed
sustainability within their organizations while collaborating with diverse stakeholders beyond their
organizations to advance both social and environmental sustainability. For this research, twenty-five
people strategy professionals and eighteen sustainability professions were interviewed using a semistructured
interview format of five key questions. Several themes emerged from these interviews which
have been organized into a “Sustainable HRM How-to-Guide” for people strategy professionals who want
to lead their organizations towards triple-bottom-line sustainability.Master of ScienceSchool for Environment and SustainabilityUniversity of Michiganhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/163336/1/Owen_Christopher_Practicum.pd
