social and environmental firm’s performance. Thus, this new HRM approach, named
sustainable HRM, is related mainly to changes in society.
In this context, Jabbour and Santos (2008) presented a multidimensional model, which
seeks to achieve superior performance by addressing economic, social and environmental
approach, through socially responsible practices, innovation in processes and products,
management of diversity, inclusion of environmental management activities, entering the
HRM in central organizational sustainability. According to Vickers (2005) HRM is the
organizational function that presents the greatest potential for the incorporation of
sustainability mind-set at the organizational level. Thus, we can propose continuity to
HRM evolution. This continuity has ‘‘sustainability’’ as the new step in HRM evolution
(Figure 2).