The conference deals with the role of “sustainable” human resource management (HRM) in the context of the global economy. The aim of this conference is to highlight HRM-related challenges that are caused by the complexity and diversity of the current global environment, focusing on decent work and sustainable, fair and successful HRM.

The conference organizers wish to bring researchers and practitioners representing different fields of international HRM and IR together to inspire the discussion on the content and meaning of sustainable HRM: What can be considered decent work in different countries and organizations? How to define a decent work environment? How to reach decent pay and terms of working organization-wide in the MNCs? What is fair strategic HRM and which interest groups point of view should dominate this discussion? In this conference we need to ask: fair to whom and on which time span?