Human Resource Management: A Critical Text Book

Following on from the "New Perspectives on Human Resource Management", published in 1989, this book focuses on human resource management (HRM), offering analyses of the key contemporary issues in employment management. This text contains an expanded list of contents. It gives comprehensive coverage of all the main areas of HRM and should serve as a main course text. In particular, current debates about the nature and significance of HRM are taken onto new ground; the link with corporate strategy is fully explored; and the interface with the personnel function, trade unions and industrial relations, and management accountancy are examined in depth. All of the main practice areas including planning, recruitment, selection, assessment, training, reward systems and employee involvement are fully covered. In addition, international aspects are explained by experts in European HRM, American HRM and international management.Read More