Reassessing Human Resource Management - Brossura

Paul Blyton; Peter Turnbull

Brossura

ISBN 10: 080398698X ISBN 13: 9780803986985

Casa editrice: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1992

Riassunto

The past decade has seen increasing acceptance of Human Resource Management (HRM) as an alternative to personnel management. For some HRM is simply a new label for 'good' personnel management. For others it represents a fundamentally different approach to the management of employees. Drawing on a wide range of organizational examples, this book brings a new balance to assessing the role and impact of HRM. It looks at the core assumptions of an HRM perspective, and at what happens when organizations seek to implement HRM. The contributors show that there are a number of tensions and contradictions inherent in an HRM concept that raise central issues for practice. They demonstrate that HRM is one approach to employee management that will tend to prevail in certain contexts and conditions rather than universally. Specific themes include: HRM and competitive success; organizational culture and HRM; HRM, flexibility and decentralization; reward management and HRM; HRM, Just-in-Time manufacturing and new technology; HRM and trade unions; HRM as the management of managerial meaning. Reassessing Human Resource Management will be essential reading for managers and students of human resource management, personnel management and industrial relations.

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Recensione:

`Welcome and important attempts to help fill this `qualitative void'.... Comprehensive reference lists in discrete subject areas also constitute a valuable by-product of all the chapters. Moreover, the case studies yield some interesting illustrative material' - Work, Employment and Society

`The book is well researched, well illustrated and thought provoking. As such, it is a welcome antidote to the grossly hyped popular literature and the less critical academic treatments of the subject' - Times Higher Education Supplement

`The book successfully raises conceptual, theoretical and some practical issues key to management practice, human resource management and trade unionism. For the critical practitioner and the student of human resource management the book advances many notable arguments' - International Journal of Career Management

`Fifteen papers that review a wide range of issues. Particularly valuable for those who need to keep up with developments in this area' - Long Range Planning

`One of the great strengths of the book is the way it integrates theoretical and empirical data.... essential reading for undergraduates and graduate human resource management students.... Blyton and Turnbull's book is a welcome addition to the literature on human resource management' - The Journal of Industrial Relations

Contenuti:

HRM - Peter Turnbull and Paul Blyton
Debates, Dilemmas and Contradictions
PART ONE: THE EMERGENCE OF HRM
HRM - Mike Noon
A Map, Model or Theory?
Human Resource Management, Competition and Strategy - Richard Whipp
Some Productive Tensions
Human Resource Maximization - Rick Delbridge and Peter Turnbull
The Management of Labour under Just-in-Time Manufacturing Systems
PART TWO: DIMENSIONS OF HRM
Organization Culture and Human Resource Management - Emmanuel Ogbonna
Dilemmas and Contradictions
Empowerment or Emasculation? Shop Floor Surveillance in a Total Quality Organization - Graham Sewell and Barry Wilkinson
HRM and the Limits of Flexibility - Paul Blyton and Jonathan Morris
Decentralization - Ian Kirkpatrick, Annette Davies and Nick Oliver
Friend or Foe of HRM?
`Locating the Line' - James Lowe
The Front-Line Supervisor and Human Resource Management
Reward Management and HRM - Ian Smith
New Technology and Human Resource Management - Caroline Lloyd and Mike Rawlinson
PART THREE: MANAGEMENT, UNIONS AND HRM
Managers' Attitudes to Human Resource Management - Michael Poole and Roger Mansfield
Rhetoric and Reality
Human Resource Management and Trade Union Responses - Miguel Martinez Lucio and Syd Weston
Bringing the Politics of the Workplace Back into the Debate
PART FOUR: A NEW FORM OF MANAGEMENT PRACTICE?
HRM - Tom Keenoy and Peter Anthony
Metaphor, Meaning and Morality
Afterword - Paul Blyton and Peter Turnbull

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• Editore: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• ISBN 10: 080398698X
• ISBN 13: 9780803986985
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 288