Human Resource Management: A Critical Text

by John Storey (Editor)

In this unique volume John Storey has brought together leading authorities to provide comprehensive and state of the art coverage of the key and emerging issues in HRM appropriate for students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The second edition contains fully revised and updated chapters from the original contributors but also covers new themes such as HRM and Ethics, Knowledge Management, Organizational Learning, Culture and Change, and HR in International Joint Ventures. In addition, current debates about the nature and significance of HRM are taken on to new ground. Further coverage includes the link with corporate strategy, the interface with the personnel function, and trade unions and industrial relations. In short - an in-depth and authoritative text.

399 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

John is Professor of Human Resource Management at The Open University Business School. He was Professor of Management at the University of Loughborough and Deputy Director of the Business School. Before that he was Principal Research Fellow at Warwick Business School where he lectured on the Warwick Executive MBA and was module leader for the HR course on the Consortium MBA.

He is an Elected Fellow of the British Academy of Management. He was Editor of the Human Resource Management Journal 1994-2000. He is Chairman of the Involvement & Participation Association (IPA). He currently serves on the Editorial Boards of the journal Leadership and the Human Resource Management Journal. He is General Editor of Blackwell's series on Management, Organizations and Business. He is an Associate of the Center for Global Strategic Human Resource Management, Rutgers University, USA and of the ESRC Skills and Knowledge Centre (SKOPE) at Oxford and Warwick University.

He is a member of the UK government's Leadership & Management Panel which advises Ministers in the Department of Business and the Department of Education. He is a non-executive director of the Land Command Personnel Management Board, and he is Chairman of the Executive Board of the IPA. He has consulted at board level for Waitrose, John Lewis, the MOD, Barclays Bank, and KPMG. He has been a Visiting Professor at the National Police Training College.