Standards Development

Scope

This document specifies requirements for a HR management system when an organization needs to:

— create stakeholder value through effective application of the HR management system, including the attraction, development and deployment of workers, continual improvement and integration of the system into the organization’s overall management system;

— demonstrate its ability to consistently manage its workers in a way that contributes to meeting stakeholder needs, including the achievement of organizational objectives and consideration of the needs of workers and employers.

This document is applicable to organizations of all sizes, growth phases and sectors, whether public or private, for profit or not for profit. This document does not determine the organization’s strategies and objectives.

This document does not serve to replace or make superfluous the instruments of agreed collective codetermination, most prominently that of collective bargaining, as established and protected by law in many jurisdictions and practised in good tradition by social partners, such as employers and workers´ unions and their respective associations.

Purpose

Justification Study previously submitted (N4 in WG13 ISO Documents) is still applicable (attached for convenience). See Annex DIS Draft 30201 attached, which includes clauses 0.1 – 0.4 summarizing Purpose and Justification. Summarily, the purpose of the proposed standard is to: provide a common framework, including vocabulary, for a sustainable human resource management (HRM) system that organizations can use to efficiently and effectively attract, develop, and deploy1 (including retention) human capital; and mitigate the risks associated with human resource management.

The HRM system in every organization drives the structure and fosters innovation, as well as the manner in which employees experience a safe work environment, equality, learning and development opportunities, and positive work experience. Thus, a sustainable HRM system results in an improved workforce experience and better outcomes for organizations and their stakeholders.