The way in which organizations manage their people has always been pivotal to their performance, long before formal human resource management coalesced into a definable and somewhat fashionable discipline in the mid-1980s. Earlier campaigns for worker welfare in the 18th and 19th century were driven by a mix of humanitarian, religious, philanthropic, and business motives, and sought workplace amenities such as medical care, housing, and libraries. At the same time functionaries and departments specialising in HR processes such as hiring, payroll, and record keeping emerged.\nThis Very Short Introduction describes how the key players and watershed moments in labour history shaped the state of human resource management today. In our era of globalization human resource management has to contend with a number of new and increasingly complex factors, such as global sourcing, regional trade agreements and labour standards, remote working, strategic alliances, and innovation driven by competition. As traditional sources of competitive advantage such as access to capital, protected markets, or proprietary technologies evaporate, firms increasingly look to human resource management to offer a competitive edge. In the 'laboratory' of university departments or in the gritty and sweaty reality of the shop floor, there is no single model of human resource management. Instead human resource management today is as able to impact everything from small owner-managed shops in Brick Lane to the high tech behemoths of Silicon Valley. Adrian Wilkinson shows how human resource 
management covers the relations between employees and their employers, and explores the range of HR practices, processes, and line management activities.\nABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Human Resource Management: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

Business & Money

Wilkinson, Adrian

Human Resources

Oxford University Press

There have been numerous accounts exploring the relationship between institutions and firm practices. However, much of this literature tends to be located into distinct theoretical-traditional 'silos', such as national business systems, social systems of production, regulation theory, or varieties of capitalism, with limited dialogue between different approaches to enhance understanding of institutional effects. Again, evaluations of the relationship between institutions and employment relations have tended to be of the broad-brushstroke nature, often founded on macro-data, and with only limited attention being accorded to internal diversity and details of actual practice. The Handbook aims to fill this gap by bringing together an assembly of comprehensive and high quality chapters to enable understanding of changes in employment relations since the early 1970s. Theoretically-based chapters attempt to link varieties of capitalism, business systems, and different modes of regulation to the specific practice of employment relations, and offer a truly comparative treatment of the subject, providing frameworks and empirical evidence for understanding trends in employment relations in different parts of the world. Most notably, the Handbook seeks to incorporate at a theoretical level regulationist accounts and recent work that link bounded internal systemic diversity with change, and, at an applied level, a greater emphasis on recent applied evidence, specifically dealing with the employment contract, its implementation, and related questions of work organization. It will be useful to academics and students of industrial relations, political economy, and management.

The Oxford Handbook of Employment Relations: Comparative Employment Systems (Oxford Handbooks)

Economics

The Oxford Handbook of Participation in Organizations (Oxford Handbooks)

Employee participation encompasses the range of mechanisms used to involve the workforce in decisions at all levels of the organization - whether direct or indirect - conducted with employees or through their representatives. In its various guises, the topic of employee participation has been a recurring theme in industrial relations and human resource management. One of the problems in trying to develop any analysis of participation is that there is potentially limited overlap between these different disciplinary traditions, and scholars from diverse traditions may know relatively little of the research that has been done elsewhere. Accordingly in this book, a number of the more significant disciplinary areas are analysed in greater depth in order to ensure that readers gain a better appreciation of what participation means from these quite different contextual perspectives. Not only is there a range of different traditions contributing to the research and literature on the subject, there is also an extremely diverse sets of practices that congregate under the banner of participation. The handbook discusses various arguments and schools of thought about employee participation, analyzes the range of forms that participation can take in practice, and examines the way in which it meets objectives that are set for it, either by employers, trade unions, individual workers, or, indeed, the state. In doing so, the Handbook brings together leading scholars from around the world who present and discuss fundamental theories and approaches to participation in organization as well as their connection to broader political forces. These selections address the changing contexts of employee participation, different cultural/ institutional models, old/'new' economy models, shifting social and political patterns, and the correspondence between industrial and political democracy and participation.

Management & Leadership

Wood, Geoffrey

Deeg, Richard

The first edition of this book has proved ideal for students at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, taking a module in HRM. It's strong theoretical underpinning and focus on widely applicable themes has proved extremely popular on courses outside the UK. The book is divided into 2 parts. First it looks at the Fundamentals of HRM providing an analysis of the core elements of HR practice. The second part examines some cutting edge themes of increasing importance to HR practitioners and academics.

Contemporary Human Resource Management: Text And Cases

Redman, Tom

Ft Pr

Contemporary Human Resource Management provides students with a thorough and critical exploration of all the key functions and issues within HRM today. Written in a clear yet thought-provoking style, the book contains chapters contributed by experts in their field to ensure coverage of the most recent ideas and practices. Each chapter is complemented by at least 2 more extensive case studies, exercises or activities to put concepts into recognisable context. It is suitable for students studying human resource management on a wide range of HRM and general business / management undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes.

Contemporary Human Resource Management: Text and Cases

PRENTICE/HALL

Contemporary Human Resource Management provides students with a thorough and critical exploration of all the key functions and issues within HRM today. Written in a clear yet thought-provoking style, the book contains chapters contributed by experts in their field to ensure coverage of the most recent ideas and practices. Each chapter is complemented by extensive case studies, exercises or activities to put concepts into recognisable context. It is suitable for students studying human resource management on a wide range of HRM and general business / management undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes.

Contemporary Human Resource Management: Text & Cases

Pearson/Education

In this book, the authors relate Total Quality Management (TQM) to the broader organisation and environment in the context in which TQM is located, bringing in consideration of organisational culture and structure, of employee relations and the balance of power between management and employees and the role of Human Resource Management. This involves a critical appraisal of TQM, considering both the way in which employees perceive its operation in practice and the question of 'who gains what' from TQM.

Managing with Total Quality Management: Theory and Practice (Management, Work and Organisations, 38)

Marchington, Mick

Snape, Ed

Reference

Red Globe Press

Managing with Total Quality Management: Theory and Practice (Management, Work and Organisations, 40)

Making Quality Critical: New Perspectives on Organizational Change (Critical Perspectives on Work and Organization)

Willmott, Hugh

Cengage Learning EMEA

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