The Role of HR in Achieving a Sustainability Culture

Creating and embedding a culture of social and environmental sustainability within your business strategy requires comprehensive integration and coordination with human resource functions. Selecting, empowering, and retaining sustainability-minded talent that values the integrity of vital systems means taking a conscientious approach to recruiting applicants, selecting and orientating new employees, evaluating performance, determining compensation and succession planning and training, and more. This research paper from Jay Liebowitz unpacks how creating a “people first” employer-of-choice culture contributes to creating a culture of sustainability and systems stewardship, and can help you to understand the role that HR can play in connecting the dots that will safeguard and grow these efforts.