Abstract
In this paper, we accentuate strategic people management (PM) as opposed to strategic human resource management (HRM) for global sustainability challenges. Given the global contemporary environments of highly dynamism and grand challenges for sustainability, the traditional paradigm of strategic HRM encounters difficulties in proactively providing strategic solutions. We review the current trends of sustainable HRM’s paradigm shift and propose strategic PM from a dynamic capability perspective to proactively set people as knowledge workers to contribute to sustainable goals in highly dynamic contexts. Dynamic strategic PM capabilities with its extended human capital base beyond the organizational boundary contribute to sustainable strategy decision making in varied contexts with key issues identified. Amplifying the focus of dynamic strategic PM capability’s interplay with sustainability strategy decisions increases our understanding about how strategic PM can create sustainable value beyond financial performance and generate paradigmatic shifts towards sustainability in the context of current addressing grand challenges.