Increasingly, organisational boundaries are becoming blurred as not all the people contributing to the performance of an organisation are employed within it. What are the implications for HRM when operating in complex networks of clients, suppliers, and partners?
- CIPD has commissioned Manchester Business School to undertake research into managing across organisational boundaries. Work is underway on the research, which includes case studies of organisations in the NHS and other sectors, and is funded jointly by CIPD and the Department of Health.
- Our report Managing across Boundaries: Human Resource Management beyond the Firm also addresses this issue, looking particularly at the implications of managing human capital which has strategic importance yet exists outside the organisation. This was undertaken as part of a major study of the the relationship between people and business performance, which the University of Bath has been carrying out on behalf of CIPD.