Green talent management to unlock sustainability in the oil and gas sector

Abstract

Due to the high requirement of skills and human resources, talent management has become an essential strategic domain for the success and survival of both local and multinational organisations in the energy sector. This research intends to identify, and analyse the barriers to Sustainable Human Resource Management with a focus on Talent Management in the Indian oil and gas sector. From the literature review and expert teams' suggestions, several significant barriers were identified, and further their mutual interrelationships were explored using total interpretive structural modelling technique. Later, the matrice d'impacts croisés multiplication appliqués à un classement analysis was used to identify the barriers having high driving intensity. Finally, the decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory was employed for establishing the cause-effect relationships between the barriers. The results of the integrated structural model highlighted that three barriers namely ‘uncertain career growth’, ‘industry dynamism’, and ‘lack of training programs’ were the significant barriers. This research intends to help the practising managers in understanding the relationship between the barriers and identifying the most critical (driving/causal) ones in linking talent management with sustainable human resource management for higher corporate sustainability of organisations in the oil & gas sector.