Needesh Ramphul

Sustainable Human Resource Management (SHRM) has emerged as a strategic approach for enabling organisations to simultaneously achieve economic, social and environmental sustainability. Despite the growing body of SHRM research, limited attention has been devoted to systematically examining how SHRM contributes to the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This study addresses this gap by combining a bibliometric analysis with a systematic literature review to examine the evolution, intellectual structure and research themes of SHRM, while developing a transparent framework for mapping SHRM research to the SDGs. Following the PRISMA guidelines, 1129 articles published between 2015 and 2026 were retrieved from the Scopus and Web of Science databases and analysed using VOSviewer. The findings reveal a substantial increase in SHRM research since 2020 and identify six dominant clusters. Building on these themes, this study develops a coding framework that systematically links the identified clusters to multiple SDGs. The findings highlight the multidimensional role of SHRM in advancing the social, economic, environmental and institutional dimensions of the 2030 Agenda while identifying emerging future research areas. This study extends the existing SHRM literature by providing a comprehensive synthesis of the field, introducing a transparent SDG mapping framework and offering practical guidance for organisations seeking to align their human resource strategies with sustainable development objectives.

This study aims to explore how Sustainable Human Resource Management (SHRM) can help transform Mauritius into a sustainable tourist destination. Although sustainability has gained significant attention in the tourism sector, there is limited knowledge on how SHRM can enhance employee well‐being, performance, achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, and contribute to sustainable destination development. Using a qualitative research design based on focus group discussions with 21 Human Resource Managers from Mauritian hotels, this study explores the relationship between SHRM and leadership roles, employee and organisational outcomes, AI, sustainable development goals, and their implications for developing a sustainable tourist destination. The results show that hotels are progressively adopting SHRM through green practices and socially responsible practices that enhance well‐being, motivation, and organisational resilience. However, SHRM is not yet fully embedded, with significant gaps in common good human resource management and green human resource management. The results also highlight the fundamental role of leadership in implementing SHRM, the limited use of artificial intelligence in hotels, and the alignment of SHRM with several Sustainable Development Goals. Despite its potential, the adoption of SHRM is constrained by financial limitations, labour shortages, generational differences, and structural policy barriers. This study is among the few qualitative studies examining SHRM as a mechanism for sustainable destination development in Mauritius and demonstrating that a more integrated implementation of SHRM is essential for creating a sustainable workforce, improving service quality, and transforming Mauritius into a sustainable tourism destination.

Since the establishment of the University, Mathematics and ‘Quantitative' subjects have often been perceived as the nightmare of many UTM students. Students who fail these modules have to take lot of re-sits and they may even be withdrawn from the programmes. take re-sits, retake re-sits several times, interrupt their studies, are made to withdraw from programs for not clearing re-sits a number of times, are not allowed to move to higher levels of programs as a result of number of accumulated re-sits or still for not clearing a re-sit in a previous level before being allowed to proceed to the next level. The study reveals that the performance of students of UTM students in Quantitative subjects can safely be attributed to their secondary school level performance in Mathematics, their level of comfort and anxiety with Mathematics, the level of effort, and the lecturer's approach to teaching Mathematics/Quantitative subjects, among the most critical factors.

Due to the lockdown and social distancing measures imposed by the Mauritian government in March 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak in Mauritius necessitated the implementation of online learning/distance learning among secondary school pupils. However, both teachers and students expressed concern that they were unprepared for such an event and had never used online learning before. As a result, conducting research to capture students' experiences and opinions on online learning can help in understanding the challenges experienced by students and the many ways in which they might be better prepared if they face a similar circumstance in the future. The primary goals of this research are to examine students' perspectives on the transition from face-to-face to online learning, the difficulties that students encountered during online learning, the various aspects that students liked about online learning, and the ways in which schools could have made their online experience more fruitful.

The purpose of this research is to explore the application of lean techniques as a means to reduce waste in order to promote sustainability within textile firms in Mauritius. This study will present some lean techniques, tools that will reduce energy, environmental wastage, raw materials utilization and improve leanness and agility. The results revealed that most of the respondent disagreed that their company was on the right track towards sustainability. A clear correlation between the absence of Lean practices and the sustainability issues the Textile industry of Mauritius is facing was found. Moreover, the study showed that the industry was facing issues like high rework and reject rate, poor people retention, high absenteeism and high energy consumption. Finally, it was deduced that all of these issues have been linked to the lack of these lean tools and techniques and ultimately to sustainability. As such reducing the 7 forms of waste can ultimately improve sustainability, thus completing all of the 3 main objectives of the study.

In the current competitive business environment, organisations are required to continuously adapt their strategies to respond to economic, social and environmental challenges. The emergence of Sustainable Human Resource Management (SHRM) is being used as a vital instrument by organisations to achieve sustainable organisational performance (economic, social and environmental) which has become a key area of concern. Hence, the objective of this systematic literature review was to analyse the relationship between SHRM and sustainable organisational performance. A total of 77 research articles on SHRM and sustainable organisational performance were extracted from scopus and google scholar and analysed. The study has therefore shed light on the trends of these two key areas and identified future avenues for research. This chapter has proposed a conceptual framework by integrating sustainable employee performance and sustainable competitive advantage as mediators and examine how SHRM and sustainable organisational performance can help to achieve sustainable tourism.

In the context of sustaining innovation, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) strive to enhance their market position through product improvements. However, globalization and rapid technological advancements pose significant challenges, urging SMEs to integrate innovative capabilities into their business models. Effective SME business model innovation, fueled by customer insights, process efficiency, and technology application, can promote development and unlock additional value-creation resources. Despite this, SMEs encounter difficulties in capitalizing on disruptive innovation due to the competitive, technology-driven, and volatile global market. This study aimed to define a comprehensive conceptual model of disruptive innovation specifically tailored for SMEs. Through an automated content analysis of relevant literature, 13 themes and 82 concepts were identified and categorized into four strategic alignment domains. These domains provide a framework for operationalizing the findings and constructing a conceptual model of disruptive innovation. Utilizing this conceptual model as a checklist can assist SMEs in turning disruption into opportunity, thereby supporting their adaptation and growth in an increasingly competitive landscape.