Reassessing human resource management
Drawing on a wide range of organizational examples, this book brings a new balance to assessing the role and impact of HRM. It looks at the core assumptions of an HRM perspective, and at what happens when organizations seek to implement HRM. The contributors show that there are a number of tensions and contradictions inherent in an HRM concept that raise central issues for practice. They demonstrate that HRM is one approach to employee management that will tend to prevail in certain contexts and conditions rather than universally. Specific themes include: HRM and competitive success; organizational culture and HRM; HRM, flexibility and decentralization; reward management and HRM; HRM, Just-in-Time manufacturing and new technology; HRM and trade unions; HRM as the management of managerial meaning
Aufsatzsammlung
ix, 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780803986978, 9780803986985, 0803986971, 080398698X
28325927
Continued: Decentralization: friend or foe of HRM? / Ian Kirkpatrick, Annette Davies and Nike Oliver
'Locating the line': the front-line supervisor and human resource management / James Lowe
Reward management and HRM / Ian Smith
New technology and human resource management / Caroline Lloyd and Mike Rawlinson
Managers' attitudes to human resource management: rhetoric and reality / Michael Poole and Roger Mansfield
Human resource management and trade union responses: bringing the politics of the workplace back into the debate / Miguel Martinez Lucio and Syd Weston
HRM: metaphor, meaning and morality / Tom Keenoy and Peter Anthony
Afterword / Paul Blyton and Peter Turnbull