Description
Strategic Human Resource Management: Building Research-Based Practice is a challenging and engaging student-focussed text written by a team consisting of world-class researchers and experienced HRM tutors at Aston University. It is ideal for students taking a HRM or Strategic HRM module at postgraduate and upper-undergraduate level.
Structured around contemporary and emerging issues, this critical text is designed to encourage students to think analytically about Strategic HRM issues and how to build real world practice on the basis of solid research evidence.
With a unique and thought-provoking range of contents that explores the links between Strategic HRM, Strategic Management and Organisational Behaviour, this text connects theory, research evidence and real-world practice. It also provides students, through an array of examples and case studies covering a variety of organisations, cultures and contexts, with access to the latest in leading-edge thinking. It also explores Strategic HRM in an international context, including integrating coverage of emerging markets such as China and India.
In order to support tutors and students, the text also includes a range of learning features with a range of in-text activities and links to further sources of information, and a companion website including lecture slides.
Contents
SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION
An Introduction to Strategic HRM
The Strategic Context of HRM
Changing Role of HRM ¿ Leading and Influencing
SECTION 2: BRIDGING THE STRATEGY ¿ POLICY DIVIDE
Strategic Resourcing
Strategic Choice in Patterns of Employment Relations
The contribution of HR to Learning and Development
SECTION 3: THE LINK BETWEEN HRM AND BUSINESS PERFORMANCE
Impact of Strategic HRM on Organisational Performance
Innovation and Creativity
Managing the Work Family Interface
SECTION 4: CONTEXTUALISING STRATEGIC HRM
Climate and Teamwork
Corporate Responsibility, Ethics and Strategic HRM
Strategic Diversity Management
The International Context
Emerging Issues in the Field.
About the author(s)
Aston Centre for Human Resources
The Aston Centre for Human Resources (ACHR) is a research centre at Aston Business School, Aston University, UK. The author team comprises: Samuel Aryee, Pawan Budhwar, Michael Butler, Kathy Daniels, Ann Davis, Doris Fay, Margaret Harris, Anastasia Katou, Carole Parkes, Judy Scully, Helen Shipton, Azni Zarina Taha, Michael West, and Qin Zhou.
ACHR was created at Aston Business School in February 2006. The mission of the Centre is to both inform and influence practice through conducting high quality, challenging research in order to extend the existing theoretical frameworks and to develop new and relevant conceptual models to represent and guide the changing realities facing businesses and the people they employ in the 21st century.
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