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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 organisational flexibility in socially acceptable ways? This book explores such questions. The authors develop a conceptual framework to provide an exploration of the growing field of strategic HRM. This text should be of interest to MBA students and advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of HRM. It should also be an valuable 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

About the Author :
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.

Review :
Boxall and Purcell truly succeed in merging the fields of strategic management and human resources in this book. This is must reading for those interested in the next generations of HR scholarship.-Professor Scott Snell, Cornell UniversityThis is exactly the 'Strategic Human Resource Management' I hope the next generation of students and managers learn and practice. Boxall and Purcell provide a solid analysis of current theory and practice and challenge HR professionals to build employment relationships that will contribute to effective and sustainable organizations. These are the expectations HR needs to meet and this text provides the tools needed to do so.-Professor Thomas A. Kochan, MIT Sloan School of Management


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780333778203
  • Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Management, work & organizations
  • Weight: 451 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0333778200
  • Publisher Date: 09 Sep 2002
  • Height: 233 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Width: 155 mm


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