Strategy and Human Resource Management - Boxall, Peter
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How is human resource management (HRM) strategic to a firm's viability and how might it help to lay a basis for sustained competitive advantage? How can managers pursue their goals for labour productivity and organizational flexibility in socially acceptable ways? This book explores such pressing questions. The authors develop an innovative conceptual framework to provide a stimulating exploration of the growing field of Strategic HRM. This text is essential reading for MBA students and advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of HRM. It is also an invaluable resource for anyone…mehr

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How is human resource management (HRM) strategic to a firm's viability and how might it help to lay a basis for sustained competitive advantage? How can managers pursue their goals for labour productivity and organizational flexibility in socially acceptable ways? This book explores such pressing questions. The authors develop an innovative conceptual framework to provide a stimulating exploration of the growing field of Strategic HRM. This text is essential reading for MBA students and advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of HRM. It is also an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the role of HRM in business success.

Table of contents:
Human Resource Management and Business Performance

PART I: CONNECTING STRATEGY AND HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Strategy and the Process of Strategic Management
Strategic HRM: 'best fit' or 'best practice'?
Strategic HRM and the Resource-based View of the Firm

PART II: MANAGING PEOPLE: SEARCHING FOR GENERAL PRINCIPLES
Work Systems and the Changing Priorities of Production
Linking Work Systems and Models of Employment
Managing Individual Performance and Development
Managing Employee Voice in Unionised and Non-Unionised Firms

PART III: MANAGING PEOPLE IN DYNAMIC AND COMPLEX BUSINESS CONTEXTS
Human Resource Strategy and the Dynamics of Industry-based Competition
Corporate Human Resource Strategy in the Global Economy
Conclusion: Implications for the Strategic Management Process
Bibliography
Author Index
Subject Index
Autorenporträt
PETER BOXALL is Professor of Human Resource Management and Head of the Department of Management and Employment Relations at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His research on human resource strategy has been published widely in international journals.

JOHN PURCELL is Professor of Human Resource Management at the University of Bath, UK. He is author of several books and articles on HRM and related subjects. He is editor of the Human Resource Management Journal and a Deputy Chairman of the Central Arbitration Committee in the UK.