Searching for the Human in Human Resource Management: Theory, Practice and Workplace Contexts

ISBN-13: 9780230019355 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 328 str.

Sharon Bolton

Opis

Searching for the Human in Human Resource Management is a highly original collection penned by leading critical thinkers in the field of organization studies and HRM, each concerned to resituate people at the heart of HRM and organizational analysis. It offers contributions in three key areas: theory, practice and workplace contexts.

Spis treści

Beginning the Search for the H in HRM; S.Bolton & M.Houlihan.- PART 1: SEARCHING FOR THE HUMAN IN HR THEORY.- Moral Economy and Employment; A.Sayer.- Searching for The Human in Empirical Research on the HRM Organisational Performance Link: A Meta-theoretical Approach; S.Fleetwood.- The Human Side of Skills and Knowledge; I.Grugulis.- Making Capital: Strategic Dilemmas for HRM; P.Thompson.- PART 2: SEARCHING FOR THE HUMAN IN HR PRACTICE.- HRM and the Menu Society: The Fetishisation of Individual Choice at Work; M.Korczynski.- Putting the Missing 'H' into HRM: The Case of the Flexible Organisation; K.Legge.- 'Have It Your Way®': Resources, Citizens and the Culture of Deceit; M.Parker.- Searching for the Human in the HR Practice of Diversity; F.Wilson.- Human Resource Development or Developing Human Capability?; J.Bryson.- PART 3: SEARCHING FOR THE HUMAN IN WORKPLACE CONTEXTS.- Disconnected Workplaces: Interests and Identities in the 'High Performance' Factory; S.Jenkins & R.Delbridge.- Rethinking Humanity in Care Work extract from Hard Work in Low Paid Britain; P.Toynbee.- Risky Business: Rethinking the Human in Interactive Service Work; S.Bolton & M.Houlihan.- HRM is Redundant?: Professions, Immaterial Labour and the Future of Work; G.Hanlon.- Disrupting Identity: Trust and Angst in Management Consulting; J.O'Mahoney.- Indices.

O autorze

SHARON C. BOLTON is Professor of Management, Strathclyde University Business School, UK

MAEVE HOULIHAN is Lecturer in Management, UCD Business Schools, University College Dublin, Ireland