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Responsible Human Resource Management
Sustainable, Ethical and Inclusive
Edited by:
- Katy Marsh-Davies - Hull University, UK
- Michelle Blackburn - Sheffield Hallam University, UK
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October 2025 | 408 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
Designed for Human Resource and Business Management students, this book focuses on Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion, ethics, and sustainability, and how these are achieved through Responsible Human Resource Management. It features examples and case studies from public, private, and third sector organizations operating in both local and international contexts.
Key features include:
- Critical HR topics such as neurodiversity and menopause in the workplace, Green HRM, gig, and hybrid working.
- Insights into the future of human resource management and the role of new technologies, including Artificial Intelligence, in ethical decision-making.
- A range of current, thought-provoking features, including windows on practice, Responsible HRM in the media, and ethical dilemmas that act as catalysts for critical thinking.
Katy Marsh-Davies is Graduate Research Director and Senior Lecturer in HRM at Hull University Business School.
Michelle Blackburn is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD and her previous roles have included Principal Lecturer in HRM at Sheffield Business School.
Key features include:
- Critical HR topics such as neurodiversity and menopause in the workplace, Green HRM, gig, and hybrid working.
- Insights into the future of human resource management and the role of new technologies, including Artificial Intelligence, in ethical decision-making.
- A range of current, thought-provoking features, including windows on practice, Responsible HRM in the media, and ethical dilemmas that act as catalysts for critical thinking.
Katy Marsh-Davies is Graduate Research Director and Senior Lecturer in HRM at Hull University Business School.
Michelle Blackburn is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD and her previous roles have included Principal Lecturer in HRM at Sheffield Business School.
Part 1: Principles
Michelle Blackburn and Katy Marsh-Davies
Chapter 1: Introducing Responsible HRM
Anne Brady, Jonathan Allott, Harriet Thiery, Katy Marsh-Davies and Michelle Blackburn
Chapter 2: Sustainable and Ethical Hrm
Toyin Aderiye, Andrea Subryan and Paul Stokes
Chapter 3: Inclusive Human Resource Management
Part 2: Foundations
Peter Prowse, Julie Prowse and Claire Taylor
Chapter 4: Employment Relations
Jo Daley, Katy Marsh-Davies, Anne Paterson, Tony Bennett and Gemma Wibberley
Chapter 5: Workplace Wellbeing
Part 3: Practices
Anne Paterson, Jonathan Allott, Michelle Blackburn, Fran Ferris and Lyle Stephen Odendaal
Chapter 6: Recruiting and Selecting People
Tina Harness, Anne Paterson, Peter Prowse, and Claire Taylor
Chapter 7: Performance and Reward
Sarah Fidment and Sally Jackson
Chapter 8: Individual and Organisational Learning
Katy Marsh-Davies, Michelle Blackburn, Anindita Banerjee and Ryan Handley
Chapter 9: Talent Deployment and Management
Part 4: Looking Beyond
Karina Zheleznyak, Olatunji Adekoya, Michelle Blackburn, Cindy Wang-Cowham, Emmanuel Kwasi Mawuena, Moses Onyoin and Paul Allan
Chapter 10: International Human Resource Management
Katy Marsh-Davies, Bridget Freer, Karen Bright, Michelle Blackburn, Michèle Dennison Márjory Da Costa-Abreu and Francimaria Rayanne Dos Santos Nascimento.
Chapter 11: The Future of Responsible HRM
Michelle Blackburn, Katy Marsh-Davies, Jonathan Allott and Lynne Marie Booth
Chapter 12: HR Practitioners as Influencers of Change