Analyzing factors affecting implementation success of sustainable human resource management (SHRM) using a hybrid approach of FAHP and Type-2 fuzzy DEMATEL

Organizations' attention paid to community and environment, and also awareness of the effects of environmental variables has contributed to the development of the concept of sustainability in organizations. Various factors including human resources can be used in the analysis of sustainability of organizations, but the issue has not been seriously considered by researchers, and the link between sustainability and human resource management and related studies have not still been extensively developed in all the branches of human resource management. One of the reasons for this issue is failure to identify the factors influencing human resource management sustainability in organizations. The current article seeks to identify these factors. Based on the existing theoretical foundations and the use of experts' opinions, the factors affecting the implementation of human resource management were divided into three categories including economic, social and environmental dimensions. To determine the weight of the factors identified based on the lack of independence of the factors; Fuzzy AHP and Fuzzy Type-2 DEMATEL were applied. The results indicated that environmental dimension was one of the effective factors and was considered the cause; however, social and economic dimensions were affected and considered the effects. Environmental factors were the most important ones. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.