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Strategy and Human Resource Management
Strategy and Human Resource Management is concerned with examining how HR strategy impacts on an organisation's chances of survival and its relative success, and with understanding how it varies across important organisational, industry and societal contexts. It takes an analytical approach, which examines and explains what managers do and why they do it before offering any sort of prescription for what the authors think they should do. This approach is grounded in research but is brought to life with examples, cases and vignettes to offer a practice-orientated analysis of the subject. As well as explaining important general principles in strategic HRM, critical features of the different contexts in which they are applied are examined.
For this fifth edition, there is increased coverage of contemporary topics, including capital markets and increasing financialisation, Industry 4.0, the shaping of employee voice under different varieties of capitalism and the effects of austerity. Strategy and Human Resource Management retains, however, the classic sources that are fundamental to the subject while also including important theoretical advances and the best new studies of strategies in the world of work and people.
For this fifth edition, there is increased coverage of contemporary topics, including capital markets and increasing financialisation, Industry 4.0, the shaping of employee voice under different varieties of capitalism and the effects of austerity. Strategy and Human Resource Management retains, however, the classic sources that are fundamental to the subject while also including important theoretical advances and the best new studies of strategies in the world of work and people.
424 pages, Hardcover
First published November 15, 2002
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December 10, 2020
A lot of good points in this book. Good food for thought, and relatively easy to read despite the text book format.
The amount of references is a bit annoying though and interrupts the flow, but at least they’re referring to many prominent researchers/studies in the HR and diversity field.
I will keep this in my bookshelf to go back to in the future.
The amount of references is a bit annoying though and interrupts the flow, but at least they’re referring to many prominent researchers/studies in the HR and diversity field.
I will keep this in my bookshelf to go back to in the future.
August 10, 2016
Although this is primarily a text book for lecturers and university students, it does provide a good summary of the main aspects of SHRM.
This a useful reference work which is also readble - a rare combination!
The subject material is covered thoroughly while acknowledging the various criticisms from competing perspectives. Having used this book to teach SHRM for three years, I can honestly say that there were no complaints about it from students - a major plus!
This a useful reference work which is also readble - a rare combination!
The subject material is covered thoroughly while acknowledging the various criticisms from competing perspectives. Having used this book to teach SHRM for three years, I can honestly say that there were no complaints about it from students - a major plus!
April 17, 2014
Although this is primarily a text book for lecturers and university students, it does provide a good summary of the main aspects of SHRM.
This a useful reference work which is also readble - a rare combination!
The subject material is covered thoroughly while acknowledging the various criticisms from competing perspectives. Having used this book to teach SHRM for three years, I can honestly say that there were no complaints about it from students - a major plus!
This a useful reference work which is also readble - a rare combination!
The subject material is covered thoroughly while acknowledging the various criticisms from competing perspectives. Having used this book to teach SHRM for three years, I can honestly say that there were no complaints about it from students - a major plus!
November 2, 2016
The amount of times that Boxall and Purcell use their own work to support arguments in this book is astounding.
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