"Decent work and economic growth”(SDG 8) and HRM

Since its introduction in 1999, the International Labour Organization’s (2018) concept of decent work and its four core pillars of employment creation, social protection, rights at work and social dialogue have become a universal human rights objective and a normative labourmarket benchmark (Brill, 2021). Decent work has been adopted in a number of global declarations and resolutions (eg the Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty 2008–2017; the Conference on Sustainable Development, 2011; the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals [SDGs], 2015; and recently, the UNO 2030 Agenda). Importantly, although a macro-level global initiative, SDG 8 (as are all 17 SDGs) is an outcome of intense democratic stakeholder discussion and is strongly embedded in concerns of social justice, participation, equality and diversity. It therefore intrinsically links the importance of broader societal …