Organizations face unprecedented challenges from uncertainty, technological change, and shifting work arrangements. This special issue calls for researchers to revisit fundamental HRM theories and examine whether established assumptions adequately explain the relationship between people, organizations, and performance in today's turbulent context. The issue seeks to move beyond incremental complexity by returning to core concepts and critically assessing whether traditional perspectives on HRM-strategy alignment, employee development, and performance outcomes remain sufficient.

The special issue welcomes theoretically grounded and methodologically rigorous contributions that challenge conventional HRM wisdom and propose new understandings relevant to uncertain environments. Research may address tensions and unintended consequences of HRM practices, sustainability concerns, digitalization, employee well-being, and emerging employment models. Empirical studies, conceptual papers, and literature reviews are all welcome, provided they offer clear advances to HRM theory and research.

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Potential topics

• Revisiting Theoretical foundations of HRM in contexts of uncertainty
• Critical reassessments of the HRM–performance relationship
• Challenges to traditional strategic HRM assumptions
• HRM, organizational resilience, and adaptation to change
• HRM and employee performance in uncertain and complex environments
• Sustainable HRM, green HRM, and long-term organizational performance
• HRM and employee well-being, happiness, engagement, and inclusion
• HRM, knowledge management, innovation, and creativity
• HRM and the management of technological and digital transformation
• HRM and the need for professional reskilling
• Work intensification, stress, and the unintended consequences of HRM
• HRM systems, organizational culture, and competing performance outcomes
• HRM and new approaches to work
• New theoretical approaches to careers, employability, and work-life integration

Timeline

• March 31, 2027: Opening date for manuscripts submissions
• March 31, 2027: Closing date for abstract submission
• June 30, 2027: Closing date for manuscripts submission