Strategy and Human Resource Management

ISBN-13: 9781137407634 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 368 str.

Peter Boxall

Opis

Integrates the fields of strategic management and HRM by 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.

Spis treści

PART I: FOUNDATIONS 1. Human Resource Management: what and why? 2. Strategy and Strategic Management PART II: GENERAL PRINCIPLES 3.Strategic HRM: ‘best fit’ or ‘best practice’? 4. Strategic HRM and sustained competitive advantage 5.Building a workforce: the challenge of interest alignment 6.Management power, employee voice and social legitimacy 7.Workforce performance and the ‘black box’ of HRM PART III: SPECIFIC CONTEXTS 8.HR strategy in manufacturing 9.HR strategy in services 10.HR strategy in multidivisional firms 11.HR strategy in multinational firms 12.Final thoughts: main themes and next steps.

O autorze

Peter Boxall is Professor of Human Resource Management and Associate Dean of Research at the University of Auckland Business School, New Zealand.

John Purcell is Visiting Professor at the School of Management, Bath University, UK. Until 2015 he held the position of the Deputy Chairman of the UK's Central Arbitration Committee for 15 years.

Blurb

How does HRM affect an organisation's chances of survival, its degree of financial success and its reputation in wider society?
How is HR strategy shaped within and across organisations, industries and societies, and how can managers improve it to strengthen their organisation's performance?

Strategy and Human Resource Management addresses these vital questions. Written by a renowned author team, it treats HR strategy as an essential element in business strategy, whilst integrating a vast range of relevant research and theory. Now in its fourth edition, it continues to challenge academics, students and practitioners to approach HRM from a strategic perspective.

New to this edition:
• All chapters have been fully updated, the selection of key studies improved, and the links to major events brought up to date.
• Includes a more thorough analysis of the general principles in strategic HRM.
• It has been restructured to provide a deeper examination of HR strategy in the 'mega contexts' of manufacturing, services, multidivisional firms, and multinationals.

This book is an essential companion for upper-level undergraduates, postgraduate students of HRM, and MBA students. Practitioners interested in the role of HRM in successful businesses will also find this a thoroughly engaging and invaluable resource.