Human resource management : a critical approach, 2nd ed.
In recent years, many countries – most notably the US and the UK – have had to contend with much economic and political turbulence and uncertainty. Bound up with this has been the issue of how fi rms employ, manage and reward their people. On the one hand, systematic failures to generate and main...
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Language: | English |
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Routledge
2020
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Online Access: | http://dspace.uniten.edu.my/jspui/handle/123456789/15701 |
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Summary: | In recent years, many countries – most notably the US and the UK – have
had to contend with much economic and political turbulence and uncertainty.
Bound up with this has been the issue of how fi rms employ, manage and reward
their people. On the one hand, systematic failures to generate and maintain
occupational and employment security and to provide decent livings in either
employment or retirement for a signifi cant proportion of the population have
been blamed as one of the principal causes of populist backlashes ( Wood and
Wright 2016 ). Despite almost three decades of debate in the mainstream literature
around the nature of human resource management (HRM), its intellectual
boundaries and its application in practice, the fi eld continues to be dogged by a
number of theoretical and practical limitations. On the other hand, exponential
increases in managerial pay, and a dislocation between pay and organizational
well-being and sustainability, have been blamed on failures in managing and
governing the reward systems aimed at senior managers. This book is intended
to provide students with a relatively advanced and critical discussion of the key
debates and themes around HRM as it is conceptualized and operationalized
in the early part of the twenty-fi rst century. Thus, the current contribution is
intended to be in the tradition of Storey (2007 ) and Legge (1995 ) and aims
to provide students with a well-grounded and intellectually rewarding critical
overview of the key issues surrounding HRM from theoretical and practical perspectives
that combine theory with practice. In doing so, we draw on contributions
from leading scholars in the fi eld who provide detailed discussions on key
debates in their respective offerings.
In this introduction, we provide the context for the book though considering
a number of overarching themes within which key debates in the fi eld of HRM
are situated. Specifi cally, we provide a summary discussion of the theoretical and
intellectual boundaries of HRM, consider its emergence in historical context
and identify some of the pervasive contradictions and limitations which prevail
in the literature. Finally, we provide a short outline of the structure and content
of this volume. |
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