Impending need of sustainable human resource management practices in construction industry: evidence from India

Abstract

The employment in construction industry is large, highly diverse and versatile in nature. There is a need of sustainable Human Resource Management (HRM) practices in this sector, to achieve a balanced growth in terms of profitability, project efficiency and long-term client satisfaction. The main objective of the study is to formulate antecedents of sustainable human resource management practices in construction industry and develop the dimensions of sustainable HRM in construction. The findings of the study reveal critical sustainable HRM practices needed in construction organisations. The study results also indicate that Sustainable HRM practices, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Organisation’s financial performance are strongly correlated to each other. This study based on the results proposes a framework of sustainable HRM practices for construction organizations. Implementation of it would guide them to effectively plan and implement such policies that retain and attract high potential talent as important internal stakeholders and also help them to manage their CSR policies and financial objectives in a balanced way.

Keywords:

• Sustainable human resource management
• construction industry
• corporate social responsibility
• organisational performance
• factor analysis
• regression

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.