The Routledge Companion to Strategic Human Resource Management

Combining up-to-date research, innovative content and practical perspectives, this book is the benchmark by which all other strategic HRM reference works should be measured. Leading figures from around the globe survey the current state of the discipline, while also introducing and exploring new, cutting edge themes in order to offer a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the field.

Section introductions and integrative critiques pull together the separate themes to provide cross-comparisons between chapters to create a cohesive and well-structured volume. Unlike other texts in this area, The Routledge Companion to Strategic Human Resource Management incorporates contributions from leading management and business writers in areas adjacent to human resource management, including strategy, innovation and organizational learning. These add fresh and challenging insights into HRM themes from key mainstream business and management thinking. The field of strategic HRM is thus enriched and extended by this volume.

Focusing on the interplay between theory and practice, this book is an essential resource for researchers and students studying human resource management and strategy.

John Storey is Professor of Management at the Open University Business School, UK. He regularly consults for public and private sector organizations and for UK government ministers. He is Chair of the IPA and has published many articles in refereed journals and authored several books in the field of HRM as well as other areas of management.

Patrick M. Wright is William J. Conaty GE Professor of Strategic Human Resources at Cornell University, USA. He has published widely in leading international journals and worked with a number of the world's leading firms in their efforts to align HR with business strategy.

Dave Ulrich is a Professor of Business at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, and a partner and co-founder of the RBL Group. He has published 15 books and consulted and done research with over half the Fortune 200 companies. He has been ranked by Business Week as the #1 management educator and listed in Forbes as one of the "world's top five" business coaches.