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Contemporary Human Resource Management
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Contemporary Human Resource Management

Tom Redman
ISBN-10: 0273728628
ISBN-13: 9780273728627

Providing critical and pragmatic coverage of contemporary ideas in human resource management, this text looks at some of the key issues and topics in the field.
List of Case Studies
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Fundamentals of Human Resource Management
Human Resource Management: a contemporary perspective
Introduction
The development of HRM
The new HRM?
The changing context of work
Strategy and HRM
Performance and HRM
The changing role of HRM
The book
Bibliography
Human Resource Management and Organisational Performance: in search of the HR advantage
Introduction
Strategy and HRM
HR and organisational performance: our approach and some background
Human resource advantage
Human capital advantage
Organisational process advantage
Conclusions and implications
Case study 2.1
Case study 2.2
Case study 2.3
Bibliography
Recruitment
Introduction
The external environment
The organisation
The job
Pre-recruitment activities
Recruitment methods
The need for an applicant perspective
Conclusions
Case study 3.1
Case study 3.2
Bibliography
Selection
Introduction
A brief overview of psychometric quality
The 'what' and 'how' of selection
Summary of trends
What do organisations actually do?
Explaining practice
Conclusions and implications for HRM
Case study 4.1
Case study 4.2
Case study 4.3
Bibliography
Training and Development
Introduction
The case for training and development
Training and development in the workplace
Rethinking training and development
Discussion and conclusions
Case study 5.1
Case study 5.2
Case study 5.3
Bibliography
Reward Management
Introduction
Why pay systems vary
Paying for performance: variable pay
Pay for performance: how strategic is it?
Discussion
Case study 6
Case study 6
Bibliography
Performance Appraisal
Introduction
Development of performance appraisal
The practice of performance appraisal
Recent developments in performance appraisal
Problems of performance appraisal
Conclusions
Case study 7
Bibliography
Industrial Relations
Introduction
Management approaches to industrial relations
Why employees join unions
The decline of joint regulation
The implications of declining joint regulation
Non-union workplaces
Non-union employee representation
Partnership with unions
Union organising and new types of union representative
Conclusions
Case study 8.1
Bibliography
Line Managers
Introduction developments in the literature
General questions emerging
Challenges arising
Future research
Conclusions
Case study 9.1
Case study 9.2
Bibliography
Organisation and Corporate Culture
Introduction
The concept of culture
Organisational culture
Categorisations of culture
Assessing organisational culture
Culture and organisational performance
Organisational culture and human resource management
Is culture change feasible?
Conclusion
Case study 10.1
Case study 10.2
Case study 10.3
Case study 10.4
Bibliography
Contemporary Themes and Issues
International HRM
Introduction
Thinking about international HRM: uniformity or diversity?
International HRM in practice
Conclusion
Case study 11.1
Case study 11.2
Case study 11.3
Bibliography
Comparative Human Resource Management
Introduction
Convergence or divergence in HRM systems
Empirical ways of understanding diversity
Conclusion
Case study 12.1
Case study 12.2
Bibliography
Understanding and Managing Careers in Changing Contexts
Introduction
An 'elastic' concept: diverse understandings of career
Changing contexts of work and career
Change and continuity in career form
Gender and ethnicity in career debates
Career lenses and approaches
More dynamic, less static approaches?
Holistic perspectives: new metaphors for thinking about career
Managing careers: implications for HR practice
Conclusion
Case study 13.1
Case study 13.2
Case study 3.3
Bibliography
Managing Diversity
Introduction
The managing diversity context
General principles
Implementing diversity initiatives
Global diversity management
Do diverstives deliver?
Conclusions
Case study 14.1
Case study 14.2
Case study 14.3
Bibliography
Work-Life Balance
Introduction
Is it work-life balance or something elser?
Why WLB is important to employers
When the government gets involved
Unions and WLB
Finding the boundaries
Conclusions
Case study 15.1
Case study 15.2
Bibliography
Downsizing
Introduction
Downsizing: the reality of HRM?
Methods of downsizing
Alternatives to redundancy
The redundancy process
Conclusions: downsizing, rightsizing or dumbsizing?
Case study 16.1
Case study 16.2
Bibliography
Employee Participation
Introduction
Defining participation
The context for employee participation
A framework for analysing employee participation
Employee participation in practice
The meanings and impact of participation
Employee participation and the EU
Conclusions
Case study 17.1
Case study 17.2
Case study 17.3
Bibliography
Knowledge Management and Human Resource Management
Introduction
Social context: the growing importance of knowledge
Defining knowledge work
Why worker participation is key to achieving participation in knowledge management initiatives
The organisational climate and workers' attitudes to knowledge management initiatives
HRM practices to support knowledge management initiatives
Case study 18.1
Case study 18.2
Bibliography
Employment Ethics
Introduction
Ethical theories: enter the moral maze
An employment ethics agenda
Shaping an ethical workplace
The history of ethical employment management
The advent of HRM
Conclusion: three fallacies of HRM ethics
Case study 19.1
Case study 19.2
Bibliography
Emotion at Work
Introduction
The emotional turn: key concepts and issues
Emotion in management theory and practice
Critical perspectives on emotion
Conclusions
Case study 20.1
Case study 20.2
Case study 20.3
Bibliography
Flexibility
Introduction: what do we mean by flexibility?
Flexibility in historical perspective
The flexible firm
Patterns of flexibili
Flexible specialisation
The new flexible firm
The high-surveillance firm and lean production
Flexibility in the public services
Conclusions
Case study 21.1
Bibliography
Workplace bullying
Introduction
How is workplace bullying defined?
The importance of power and dependency in workplace bullying
Identifying workplace bullying behaviours
Reporting of frequency of workplace bullying behaviours and risk groups
Impact on the target
Impact on witnesses
Impact on the organisation
Antecedents of workplace bullying
Prevention and management of workplace bullying
Conclusion
Case study 22.1
Case study 22.2
Bibliography
Index

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