"Just-in-time," "total quality management," "lean manufacturing," "call centres," "team work," "empowerment" - most people in business have heard these buzz words, often offered as a panacea to all profit ills. So why don't they always work? Can you combine them anyhow? If not, why not?
The New Workplace Handbook is a comprehensive guide to the evidence available on how modern working practices and technology affect the people in organizations. Within a broad psychological framework, leading experts examine how people work, their experience of work, the impact on productivity...
"Just-in-time," "total quality management," "lean manufacturing," "call centres," "team work," "empowerment" - most people in business have heard thes...
This volume shows how to manage and motivate the modern workforce by developing the connection between HRM policies/practices and work psychology. It provides a summary of existing research, knowledge and debate on work psychology, and applies this knowledge to the incresingly common changes within employee relationships driven by: international competitive pressures; technological change; new forms of work organization; and the changing expectations and behaviours of individual employees.
This volume shows how to manage and motivate the modern workforce by developing the connection between HRM policies/practices and work psychology. It ...
Within the field of strategic management there is increasing awareness of the limitations of rational approaches to decision making. Managing in a climate of continuous change and uncertainty has turned attention to the role of managerial cognition. This volume explores the nature of cognition in organizations and focuses upon: the behaviour and characteristics of top management teams; organizational learning and memory; distributed cognition and information markets; the significance of knowledge management and tacit learning; key competencies such as emotional intelligence, information...
Within the field of strategic management there is increasing awareness of the limitations of rational approaches to decision making. Managing in a cli...
From the mid-1980s to the turn of the 1990s the international HR field was considered to be in its infancy. There continues to be both an evolution of territory covered by the field - a series of successively evolving cultural, geographical and institutional challenges faced by the multinational corporation (MNC) - as well as more critical questioning whether this has created an expanded or a fragmented field.
This book brings together the latest research on important -issues-driven- concerns that the field of IHRM now has to face, absorb, interpret then reanalyse through international...
From the mid-1980s to the turn of the 1990s the international HR field was considered to be in its infancy. There continues to be both an evolution of...
International Human Resource Management provides a concise overview of the rich HR landscape in Europe to help students develop cutting-edge people management approaches.
The innovative, multi-disciplinary approach of the book provides a holistic picture of the key issues on the individual, organizational and societal levels. The book is divided into three parts:
Part I explores the institutional and economic contexts that organizations face in different European countries. This section goes beyond exploring issues of diversity to include a discussion of the impact of the...
International Human Resource Management provides a concise overview of the rich HR landscape in Europe to help students develop cutting-edge people...
International Human Resource Management provides a concise overview of the rich HR landscape in Europe to help students develop cutting-edge people management approaches.
The innovative, multi-disciplinary approach of the book provides a holistic picture of the key issues on the individual, organizational and societal levels. The book is divided into three parts:
Part I explores the institutional and economic contexts that organizations face in different European countries. This section goes beyond exploring issues of diversity to include a discussion...
International Human Resource Management provides a concise overview of the rich HR landscape in Europe to help students develop cutting-ed...
Human Resource Management, Innovation and Performance investigates the relationship between HRM, innovation and performance. Taking a multi-level perspective the book reflects critically on contentious themes such as high performance work systems, organizational design options, cross-boundary working, leadership styles and learning at work.
Human Resource Management, Innovation and Performance investigates the relationship between HRM, innovation and performance. Taking a multi-level pers...
Drawing on recent theoretical contributions, this Cambridge Companion presents an up-to-date, critical review of talent management within a global context.
Drawing on recent theoretical contributions, this Cambridge Companion presents an up-to-date, critical review of talent management within a global con...
