SIG 08 HRM  chair: Silvia Dello Russo, Luiss Guido Carli University, sdellorusso@luiss.it

The newly established SIG 08 HRM follows its separation from SIG 09 OB HRM. More information about its management team and activities will be available in due course.

Mission and Scope

The Human Resource Management (HRM) Special Interest Group (SIG) aims to advance scholarship and foster dialogue on how organisations manage people and employment relationships across different organisational, institutional, and societal contexts. The SIG provides an inclusive and internationally oriented forum for scholars and practitioners to develop, discuss, and disseminate research that contributes to HRM theory and practice.

The HRM SIG welcomes research addressing the design, implementation, experience, and outcomes of HRM policies, practices, and systems, as well as the actors, processes, and contextual conditions that shape them. Its scope encompasses established areas of HRM, including strategic and international HRM, recruitment and selection, performance and talent management, learning and development, careers, rewards, employee relations, diversity, equity and inclusion, employee wellbeing; as well as contemporary and evolving areas of HRM such as sustainable, responsible and common good HRM, the changing nature of people management and employment relationships in response to technological, demographic, environmental, and societal transformations.

The SIG particularly encourages research that connects different levels of analysis and examines HRM in its broader organisational and institutional context. It welcomes diverse theoretical perspectives, methodological approaches, and empirical settings, including private, public, and non-profit organisations.

Through its activities, the HRM SIG seeks to build a vibrant scholarly community, encourage collaboration and exchange across countries and career stages, and strengthen the relevance and contribution of HRM scholarship to organisations, employees, and society.

History

The Human Resource Management SIG was established in 2026, following the evolution of the former Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management (OB & HRM) SIG, which had been part of EURAM since 2012 and had grown to become one of the Academy's largest SIGs in terms of paper submissions.

The creation of a dedicated HRM SIG reflects both the growth and increasing diversity of HRM scholarship within EURAM. The new SIG builds on the strong foundations and scholarly community developed within the former OB & HRM SIG, while providing a distinct forum in which the breadth and evolving boundaries of HRM research can be represented and further developed.