Employees’ Sustainability Behaviors and Human Resources Management for Sustainable Working Life: Two Sections from Turkey

It is clear that no other power in the world has the kind of influence as the business world has to offer in the process of transforming into a sustainable world. Employees are not only agencies of their own companies on damage to environment but also they are directly affected by these damages. For this reason, it is critical for the sustainability of the business world to improve the attitudes and behaviors of employees to ensure the organization to protect the environment. This study aims to take a closer look at the sustainability practices of companies in Turkey. For this purpose, two different studies were carried out: the first one about the attitudes and behaviors of the employees and the second one for human-focused practices of the leading companies, from the perspective of human resources management. Findings show that, the presence of environmentally friendly practices increases the environmentally activist behavior of employees. The main finding of the second study is that organizations are mostly involved in “attracting talent and being a company preferred by employees” and “reducing the negative effects on employees” in relation to human resources management in sustainability reporting