Every organization is beset with complex interrelationships, both internally and in the wider business environment. A major issue in strategic HRM today is how awareness (and avoidance) of organizational and interpersonal tensions can help a business succeed and gain a competitive advantage over its rivals. This innovative text applies a systems theory perspective to strategic human resource management, drawing particularly on the Viable Systems Model and soft systems methodology. Readers are introduced to different ways of thinking about systems and shown how systems can...

Every organization is beset with complex interrelationships, both internally and in the wider business environment. A major issue in strategic HRM today is how awareness (and avoidance) of organizational and interpersonal tensions can help a business succeed and gain a competitive advantage over its rivals. This innovative text applies a systems theory perspective to strategic human resource management, drawing particularly on the Viable Systems Model and soft systems methodology. Readers are introduced to different ways of thinking about systems and shown how systems can...