This chapter is about the importance of sustainable development of human resources in the globalization time period. The success of an organization highly depends upon the human resource, and it is the dire need of the time to focus on their sustainable development. Many of the organizations are running by traditional management styles and do not focus on sustainable development of employees. The authors recommended the dire need to develop human resource sustainability in the globalization time period.
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Human resource (HR) serves as a foundation for every organization. The failure to implement a system is not due to the technical deficiencies of an organization but due to the deficiencies of necessary skills of HR (Azizi et al., 2021). The sustainable development (SD) of HR has gained greater attention these days (Tooranloo et al., 2017). Skilled and developed employees can use organizational resources efficiently and effectively (Azizi et al., 2021). HR plays numerous functions such as employees’ attraction, employees’ recruitment, employees’ selection, employees’ development, compliance beyond labour regulations, employee cooperation, fairness and equality, long-term orientation, care of employees, care of environment, profitability, employees’ participation, social dialogue, and external partnership (Stankeviˇciut¯ e & Savaneviˇcien ˙ e, 2018; Alshareef, & Tunio, 2022; Shaikh, et al., 2022; Tunio, et al., 2021). Therefore, due to their dynamic nature of job, it is important to provide them right expertise and skills to deal with diverse scenarios.
Abd and Al-Saidi, (2021) suggested that there is a dire need to attract, recruit, develop and retain skilled and expert staff. According to Sulej (2021), SD refers as a “process that connects social and economic aspects who considering environmental and ecological concerns”. SD is a soft approach to combine the idea of sustainability to HR (Pratiwi et al., 2022). It is the ability to meet the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs (World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987). According to Pratiwi et al., (2022), HR development is one of the basic elements of HR functions. The economic growth of organizations is directly associated to SD of HR.
As world have to face numerous challenges such as currently, pandemic COVID- 19 has affected whole globe adversely. Moreover, world is facing constant changes in society, legislation, economy and technical development that pressurize the employees to enhance their work skills and enable them to adapt changing conditions (Stofkova & Sukalova, 2020; Tunio, et al., 2021
Memon, et al., 2021; Afshan, et al., 2021; Chaudhry, et al., 2021). Therefore, organizations should focus on devising programmes and plans for SD of HR to deal with such situations and to prepare them for future as well.