Human Resource Management
Rhetorics and Realities
Published on 16. November 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
XVIII, 430 pages
978-1-4039-3600-4 (ISBN)
Description
Human Resource Management: Rhetorics and Realites remains a classic text examining the role and place of HRM in contemporary society. A decade on, the anniversary edition brings the debate up-to-date, and explores the changes and developments that have taken place since its original publication in 1995. A new foreword and introductory chapter by Karen Legge will place the original debates within the context of the new millenium, ensuring that Human Resource Management: Rhetorics and Realities remains fresh and relevant to a new generation of students.
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Series
Edition
2004
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
729 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4039-3600-4 (9781403936004)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-137-03601-8
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Previous edition
Book
08/1995
Palgrave Macmillan
€32.18
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Person
KAREN LEGGE is Professor of Organisational Behaviour at Warwick Business School. She is extremely well respected and is considered to be a leading authority in HRM. She is Joint editor of the Journal of Management Studies and is very well connected in the field of HRM and organizational studies.
Content
Introduction.- A Decade On.- What is Personnel Management?.- Styles of Managing the Employment Relationship.- What is Human Resource Management.- HRM and 'Strategic' Integration with Business Policy?.- HRM: Towards the Flexible Firm?.- HRM: From Compliance to Commitment?.- HRM and Quality: Customer Sovereignty in the Enterprise Culture?.- HRM and 'New Realism' in Industrial Relations?.- HRM: Modernist Project or Postmodern Discourse?.- Epilogue: The Future of HRM?.