Critical Issues in Human Resource Management

Herausgeber: Roper, Ian; Chatrakul Na Ayudhya, Uracha; Prouska, Rea

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A new critical and authoritative textbook for all HRM modules. Key Selling Features * Provides students with a critical evaluation of the core HRM topics, problematising subjects to encourage sophisticated thinking about HR interventions * Is written by a team of experts from the UK and from international institutions, bringing a number of diverse perspectives to HRM * Draws out the importance of state/corporate governance of the workplace and the politics of workplace relations * Integrates students' prior understanding of the key operational aspects of HRM with the wider institutional and social contexts in which they occur * Expands students' knowledge of HR-related theory with wider social and business theory, enabling them to apply critical approaches to HR problems * Is unique in that it is designed to cater for a year-long module * Section 3 is unique in applying HRM pracices to specific industry contexts rather than assuming 'best practice' is universal.This will enable students to think about how different issues might be dealt with differently in say an NHS trust and a hotel This text comes with online resources for students and tutors including a lecturer's guide and PowerPoint slides. Market 1. 3rd year UG or PG business students taking HRM, strategic HRM or contemporary module that takes a critical approach 2. HRM programmes on MBAs

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kogan Page
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 252mm x 192mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 882g
• ISBN-13: 9781843982425
• ISBN-10: 1843982420
• Artikelnr.: 31194429

Autorenporträt

Ian Roper is Principal Lecturer in Employment Relations and Director of Programmes for HRM at Middlesex University Business School, UK Rea Prouska is a Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management and programme leader for the BA Human Resource Management degree at Middlesex University Business School, UK Uracha Chatrakul Na Ayudhya is a Lecturer in Human Resource Management at Middlesex University Business School, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: How to use this bookIntroduction
Section 1: The influences and shapers of HR strategy
Ethics(1): Corporate governance and HRM Ethics(2): Corporate social
responsibility and HRM
Managing HR in differing national contexts
The future of work: Beyond utopian and dystopian views
The economic environment: Corporate finance and HRM
Politics, the regulatory environment and HRM
HRM and socio-demographics: Age diversity and the future workforce
Integrating and applying the external drivers into HR strategy
Section 2: HR processes and practices
Critical issues in people resourcing(1): Measuring 'performance' in HRM
Critical issues in people resourcing(2): The dilemmas with outsourcing and
offshoring
Critical issues in employee relations(1): From employee Consent to employee
engagement
Critical issues in employee relations(2): Individualism, unitarism and
employee voice
Critical issues in learning and development: Beyond the learning
organisation
Critical issues in reward management
Critical issues in equality and diversity(1): Gender equity and the
inadequacy of the work-life-balance narrative
Critical issues in equality and diversity(2): Defining and challenging
institutional racism
Critical issues in euality and dversity(3): Disability discrimination and
the modern workplace
Section 3: Contextualising HRM: Sectoral vews of HR pactice
HRM in manufacturing
HRM in private services
HRM in public services
HRM in the not-for-profit sector
Section 4: Conclusions
Future Issues: Five national and five global challenges for HRM