Critical Issues in Human Resource Management will enable all HR students to take a critical approach to HR issues. Outlining the influences and shapers of HR strategy including ethics, managing in different national contexts, employment relations, politics, governance and finance, this book provides students with a full understanding of the complexities of HRM strategy and what the implications of these are. There is also crucial discussion of critical issues in the processes and practice of HRM including the dilemmas of onshoring and offshoring, gender equality, challenging institutional racism and disability discrimination in the modern workplace to enable readers to think deeply and critically about these issues. Critical Issues in Human Resource Management also includes discussion of the application of HRM in different sectors such as manufacturing, the public sector, the private sector and not-for-profit organizations. This will enable HR students to examine HR practices in specific industries and to think about how issues might be dealt with differently in different sectors, rather than assuming that best practice is universal.
Online resources include a lecturer guide with additional seminar activities and discussion topics, powerpoint slides and annotated weblinks for students to enable them to develop an astute, nuanced and critical approach to human resource management
Table of Contents:
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
About the Author :
Ian Roper is a Reader in HRM at Essex Business School, University of Essex, 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
