Sustainable development through CSR in human resource management practices: the effects of the economic crisis on job quality

Abstract

This article focuses on sustainable development and human resource management (HRM). It analyses the effects of the economic crisis on CSR in the management of employees, its determinants and also depicts a map of job quality for employees in Spain. Results show that the crisis has not changed the overall pattern or map; neither the characteristics of the firm, of the employee and of the job, that determine that map. Results also point to the fact that employees in the lower end of CSR in HRM practices have been the most affected by hard cost-containment measures applied by firms, such as dismissals. Around one third of employees have low job quality in nearly all the dimensions analysed; while two thirds have higher job quality, but with variability among dimensions. [...]