This new edition provides a critical yet accessible account of the strategic role of human resource management within organizations. Building upon the success of the first edition, this edition contains new chapters on culture and values in HRM in addition to expanding coverage of individual performance and development. Updated to include the latest research and development, it continues to challenge students to critically assess the role and contribution of human resource to organizations.
PETER BOXALL is a Professor of Human Resource Management and the Head of the Department of Management and Employment Relations at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is an Associate Editor of the Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources and a member of the International Advisory Board of Human Resource Management Journal.
JOHN PURCELL is the Professor of Human Resource Management at the University of Bath. He is editor of the Human Resource Management Journal and a Deputy Chairman of the Central Arbitration Committee.