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Building Sustainable Organizations: The Human Factor.

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Pfeffer, Jeffrey·2010·Academy of Management Perspectives
DOI 10.5465/amp.2010.50304415
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Although most of the research and public pressure concerning sustainability has been focused on the effects of business and organizational activity on the physical environment, companies and their management practices profoundly affect the human and social environment as well. This article briefly reviews the literature on the direct and indirect effects of organizations and their decisions about people on human health and mortality. It then considers some possible explanations for why social sustainability has received relatively short shrift in management writing, and outlines a research agenda for investigating the links between social sustainability and organizational effectiveness as well as the role of ideology in understanding the relative neglect of the human factor in sustainability research.

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  • A sustainable career is characterized by one's health, happiness, and productivity.

    “A sustainable career is characterized by one's health, happiness, and productivity (de Vos et al., 2020), which are important to human sustainability (Pfeffer, 2010).”

    From Advancing the sustainability agenda through strategic human resource management: Insights and suggestions for future research (2023) · cites this paper as Pfeffer, 2010

  • In some cases financial investments used to meet environmental goals and additional expenditures in employee development and training could hinder maximization of economic performance, resulting in uncertainty among managers about performance priorities.

    “For example, in some cases financial investments used to meet environmental goals and additional expenditures in employee development and training could hinder maximization of economic performance (Jackson & Seo, 2010;Pfeffer, 2010), resulting in uncertainty among managers about performance priorities.”

    From Common Good HRM: A paradigm shift in Sustainable HRM? (2020) · cites this paper as Pfeffer, 2010

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Authors
Pfeffer, J.
Affiliations
Stanford University (US)
Corresponding author
Pfeffer, Jeffrey
ORCID
Pfeffer, Jeffrey
Venue
Academy of Management Perspectives
Publisher
Academy of Management
Published
2010-02-01
Volume
24
Issue
1
Pages
34-45
ISSN
1558-9080 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.5465/amp.2010.50304415
OpenAlex
W1848005497
Cited by
862
References
8
Citations by year
2026: 23 · 2025: 34 · 2024: 57 · 2023: 55 · 2022: 81 · 2021: 66 · 2020: 74 · 2019: 56 · 2018: 64 · 2017: 55 · 2016: 47 · 2015: 44 · 2014: 58 · 2013: 48 · 2012: 55
FWCI
90.71
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Academy of Management Perspectives (publishedVersion)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (publishedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Marketing › Environmental Sustainability in Business
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting
Keywords
social sustainability, organizational effectiveness, mortality, organizational decision-making, ideology

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