Searching for the Human in Human Resource Management
Theory, Practice and Workplace Contexts
Published on 30. April 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
328 pages
978-0-230-01935-5 (ISBN)
Description
Searching for the Human in Human Resource Management is a highly original collection penned by leading critical thinkers in the field of organization studies and HRM, each concerned to resituate people at the heart of HRM and organizational analysis. It offers contributions in three key areas: theory, practice and workplace contexts.
Reviews / Votes
A number of influential thinkers in the area of critical HRM are featured here... providing an accessible overview of central concerns in the field. Searching for the Human in Human Resource Management would be suitable for reflective practitioners as well as students of HRM intersted in getting a comprehensive overview of current thinking in critical HRM. - Tracy Wilcox, BJIR An International Journal of Industrial RelationsMore details
Series
Edition
2007
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
506 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-230-01935-5 (9780230019355)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-137-02023-9
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Sharon Bolton | Maeve Houlihan
Searching for the Human in Human Resource Management
Theory, Practice and Workplace Contexts
E-Book
04/2007
1st Edition
Bloomsbury Academic
€77.49
Available for download
Persons
SHARON C. BOLTON is Professor of Management, Strathclyde University Business School, UK
MAEVE HOULIHAN is Lecturer in Management, UCD Business Schools, University College Dublin, Ireland
MAEVE HOULIHAN is Lecturer in Management, UCD Business Schools, University College Dublin, Ireland
Content
Beginning the Search for the H in HRM; S.Bolton & M.Houlihan.- PART 1: SEARCHING FOR THE HUMAN IN HR THEORY.- Moral Economy and Employment; A.Sayer.- Searching for The Human in Empirical Research on the HRM Organisational Performance Link: A Meta-theoretical Approach; S.Fleetwood.- The Human Side of Skills and Knowledge; I.Grugulis.- Making Capital: Strategic Dilemmas for HRM; P.Thompson.- PART 2: SEARCHING FOR THE HUMAN IN HR PRACTICE.- HRM and the Menu Society: The Fetishisation of Individual Choice at Work; M.Korczynski.- Putting the Missing 'H' into HRM: The Case of the Flexible Organisation; K.Legge.- 'Have It Your Way®': Resources, Citizens and the Culture of Deceit; M.Parker.- Searching for the Human in the HR Practice of Diversity; F.Wilson.- Human Resource Development or Developing Human Capability?; J.Bryson.- PART 3: SEARCHING FOR THE HUMAN IN WORKPLACE CONTEXTS.- Disconnected Workplaces: Interests and Identities in the 'High Performance' Factory; S.Jenkins & R.Delbridge.- Rethinking Humanity in Care Work extract from Hard Work in Low Paid Britain; P.Toynbee.- Risky Business: Rethinking the Human in Interactive Service Work; S.Bolton & M.Houlihan.- HRM is Redundant?: Professions, Immaterial Labour and the Future of Work; G.Hanlon.- Disrupting Identity: Trust and Angst in Management Consulting; J.O'Mahoney.- Indices.