Human Resource Management - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1855066297 ISBN 13: 9781855066298

Publisher: Thoemmes Continuum, 2000

Synopsis

The Industrial Revolution profoundly changed the nature of work, much as the advent of information technology is doing now. A century later, the Scientific Revolution in management began to look seriously at the problems that had been caused and to attempt solutions. In the early twentieth century, disciplines spanning a diverse range from engineering to psychology looked at the question of managing people in the workplace. The origins of the disciplines we now call personnel management and human resource management are found here, as are the prototype arguments for the existence of human capital.

The set consists of eight volumes: six complete reprints of key works plus two completely reset volumes of shorter pieces - extracts and chapters from books, essays, journal articles and pamphlets. The collection begins with H. L. Gantt's early Work, Wages and Profits and Hoxie's Scientific Management and Labour, representing the formalist and mechanistic approach. Management and the Worker, by Roethlisberger and Dickson, gives the official account of the Western Electric Company Hawthorne Experiments into the human effect of work. From a British perspective, showing the influence of social philosopher Mary Parker Follett, is Seebohm Rowntree's The Human Factor in Business. Works by Sydney Webb, Frankel and Fleischer, and Bose's Gandhian Techniques and Traditions in Industrial Relations, provide some non-typical approaches adding further breadth and diversity to the selection. The two reset volumes select material from a wide range of original sources, providing an opportunity to access the 'hidden' shorter literature on the subject.

—comprehensive reference collection on the origins of the modern discipline of human resources
—highlights the opposing views of scientific management vs. the human relations school and its origins
—key works and extracts by H. L. Gantt, Thomas Watson (founder of IBM), Lyndall F. Urwick, Sydney Webb (the Fabian), Seebohm Rowntree and Lillian Gilbreth, and many others

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About the Author

Morgen Witzel is a Fellow of the Centre for Leadership Studies at the University of Exeter Business School. He is author of more than twenty books including the bestsellers Tata: The Evolution of a Corporate Brand and Doing Business in China, now in its third edition. His books have been translated into 11 languages. His articles have appeared in the Financial Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Toronto Globe and Mail, The Smart Manager, Financial World, and many others.

Edition details

• Publisher: Thoemmes Continuum
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1855066297
• ISBN 13: 9781855066298
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 2680
• Editor: Witzel Morgen