RT journal article
T1 Pressures for sustainability and strategic responses on employment relationships: The role of the HR manager
A1 Bornay Barrachina, María del Mar
A1 Guerrero Villegas, Jaime
A1 López Fernández, Macarena
A1 Ruiz Rodríguez, Margarita
A2 Organización de Empresas
K1 Employment relationships
K1 HR manager´s role
K1 Institutional pressures for sustainability
K1 Sustainable strategic commitment
AB The study objective was to show how a company's internal factors, such as organizational commitment and HR manager role can affect the establishment of different employment models towards sustainability. Specifically, we defined a model that analyses how an organisation's external (Institutional Pressures for Sustainability, or IPS) and internal factors (Sustainable Strategic Commitment, or SSC) can influence a company's Employment Relationships (ERs)– i.e., the relationships between employers and employees. We tested our hypotheses on a sample of 145 Spanish companies conducting multiple regression analyses as well as the moderation and mediation test using PROCESS (for SPSS v3.5). The results showed that despite the direct influence of IPS on ERs, a company's commitment and/or contribution towards sustainability plays a major role, as the latter constitutes the mechanism through which IPS enhance ERs. Furthermore, our results confirm the HR manager's significant role in fostering a company's strategic commitment to sustainability, thereby reinforcing the relationship between IPS and SSC. Consequently, HR management can develop a set of ERs better suited to a sustainable model, that is, one which encourages long-term commitment (Mutual Investment).
PB European Academy of Management and Business Economics
SN 2444-8834
YR 2023
FD 2023-06-07
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/29530
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/29530
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 10-nov-2026