Strategic Human Resource Management - Hardcover

Mabey, Christopher; Salaman, Graeme; Iles, Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0631185046 ISBN 13: 9780631185048

Publisher: Blackwell Pub, 1995

Synopsis

This text covers the integration of human resource strategies (HRS) within corporate objectives. The authors combine current theory and practice to show that it is vital for organizations of all sizes and sectors to have a human resource strategy for success of the organization. The text is international in outlook and contains clear, boxed guides to chapter topics, activity and revision questions, introductions to chapter structure and content and summaries at the end of each chapter. Major case studies and many international examples are used throughout to illustrate the theory of human resource strategies. The text is accompanied by a comprehensive Instructor's Manual including lecture notes, acetate masters, chapter objectives and summaries, questions and answers.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Strategic Human Resource Management provides a thorough overview of all aspects of human resource strategy and is designed as a bechmark text for undergraduate and MBA students. The concept of human resource strategy has caused considerable controversy, and the authors critically examine current theory and the historical origins of human resource strategy in order to better understand this. They do this by taking a distinctive approach which is:.
a) thematic - using the conventional categories of HRM as route to understanding power-broking and decision-making in organizations.
b) problematic - exploring the tensions and contradictions inherent in most strategic HR interventions.
c) critical - focusing at the strategic level, asking searching questions as how HR 'strategies' are conceived, pursued and reconstructed.
d) accessible - drawing upon extensive experience in preparing Open University teaching material and incorporating international cases wherever possible.

About the Author:

Christopher Mabey is a senior lecturer and Head of the centre for Human Resources and Change Management at the Open Business School. A Chartered Occupational Psychologist, he researches, writes and consults widely on individual and organizational development.
Graeme Salaman is Reader in Sociology in the Social Science faculty of the Open University. He has published extensively over many years in the sociology of work and organizations, and in human resource strategies.

About this edition

• Publisher: Blackwell Pub
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0631185046
• ISBN 13: 9780631185048
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 502