Human Resource Management: A Critical Approach

Written by an international team of respected scholars, Human Resource Management: A Critical Approach, 3rd edition, adopts a critical perspective to examine the core management function of human resource management (HRM) in all its complexity – including its darker sides.

Despite over three decades of debate around the nature of HRM, its intellectual boundaries and its application in practice, the field continues to be dogged by several theoretical and practical limitations. This textbook opens with a critique of the very concept of HRM, tracing its development over time, and then systematically analyses the context of HRM, practice of HRM and international perspectives on HRM.

New chapters commissioned for this third edition examine HRM and consider issues including diversity and inclusion, employee well-being, digitalisation and AI, sustainable HRM and gig work and job deconstruction.

This textbook is essential reading for advanced and inquisitive students of HRM, and for HRM professionals seeking to deepen their understanding of the complexities of their field.

David G. Collings holds Chair of Sustainable Business at Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. He previously held academic appointments at the University of Sheffield, Dublin City University and the University of Galway. He has held visiting positions at King’s College London, Cornell Univeristy and Nanyang Business School in Singapore.

Geoffrey Wood is Professor and DanCap Private Equity Endowed Chair, and Department Chair DAN Management at Western University in Canada, and also holds adjunct professorships at the University of Bath and Cranfield University, both in the UK. Previously, he served as Dean and Professor of International Business, at Essex Business School and before then as Professor of International Business at Warwick Business School, UK.

Leslie T. Szamosi is Professor and Director of the Pan-European MBA programme at CITY College, University of York Europe Campus. He is also Accreditor and Panel Chair for the International Faculty of the Association of MBAs (AMBA) and a regular evaluator and assessor of European Union-funded projects. He has worked in both the private and public sectors in Canada.