Where Have We Lost It? Sustainability Principles: from Local Agenda 21 to Present GHRM Promoted by Public Sector Organizations

Local Agenda 21 promoted the idea of citizen involvement "at the grassroots". It was the "era" of glory for public participation at all levels and in all representative areas of the three sustainability pillars. From increasing institutional capacity to implement the sustainable development programs, namely local and county public authorities, to the involvement of all stakeholders in various fields, such as education, health, social services, culture, representatives of the business environment, small and medium-sized enterprises, institutions and organizations responsible and active in environmental protection, representatives of civil society, the entire community was part of the process. Beginning with the first concerns regarding the approach of sustainable practices in human resource management to the present, theorists and practitioners in the field are looking for viable solutions to increase the level of employee involvement in organizational activity (research issue). The present research aims to identify the moment when the paradigm shift in sustainability took place, from the "bottom-up" to the "top-down" register (the goal of the project). To this extent, the literature was reviewed (research methodology), using some databases contained in the Enformation portal (research data), in order to identify the level of interest in the reference topic (keywords: Local Agenda 21, SDGs) and the trend in its evolution. Future research should focus on the progress of Local Agenda 21, by means of structured interviews applied to stakeholders involved in the process of developing Strategies for Sustainable Development in the pilot cities where the Local Agenda 21 project was implemented.