Overview

Strategy and Human Resource Management is concerned with examining how HR strategy impacts on an organisation’s chances of survival and its relative success, and with understanding how it varies across important organisational, industry and societal contexts. It takes an analytical approach, which examines and explains what managers do and why they do it before offering any sort of prescription for what the authors think they should do. This approach is grounded in research but is brought to life with examples, cases and vignettes to offer a practice-orientated analysis of the subject. As well as explaining important general principles in strategic HRM, critical features of the different contexts in which they are applied are examined. For this fifth edition, there is increased coverage of contemporary topics, including capital markets and increasing financialisation, Industry 4.0, the shaping of employee voice under different varieties of capitalism and the effects of austerity. Strategy and Human Resource Management retains, however, the classic sources that are fundamental to the subject while also including important theoretical advances and the best new studies of strategies in the world of work and people.

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Author:   Professor Peter Boxall (Professor of Human Resource Management, University of Auckland, New Zealand) ,  Professor John Purcell (Formerly of University of Bath, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Edition:   5th edition
ISBN:  

9781350309869

ISBN 10:   1350309869
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   05 May 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Acknowledgements Part 1 Foundations 1. Human resource management: what and why? 2. Strategy and strategic management Part 2 General Principles 3. Strategic HRM: 'best fit' or 'best practice'? 4. Strategic HRM and sustained competitive advantage 5. Building a workforce: the challenge of interest alignment 6. Employee voice, social legitimacy and strategic negotiations 7. Workforce performance and the 'black box' of HRM Part 3 Specific contexts 8. HR strategy in manufacturing 9. HR strategy in services 10. HR strategy in multidivisional firms 11. HR strategy in multinational firms 12. Reviewing and enhancing HR strategy References Index

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Peter Boxall is Professor of Human Resource Management at the University of Auckland Business School, New Zealand. His work on strategic HRM and employee well-being has appeared in a variety of international journals. John Purcell is Visiting Professor at the Industrial Relations Research Unit, University of Warwick, UK.

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