Strategy and Human Resource Management

Peter Boxall, John Purcell

ISBN 10: 1350309869 / ISBN 13: 9781350309869

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, GB, 2022

About this Item

Strategy and Human Resource Management is concerned with examining how HR strategy impacts on an organisation's chances of survival and its relative success, and with understanding how it varies across important organisational, industry and societal contexts. It takes an analytical approach, which examines and explains what managers do and why they do it before offering any sort of prescription for what the authors think they should do. This approach is grounded in research but is brought to life with examples, cases and vignettes to offer a practice-orientated analysis of the subject. As well as explaining important general principles in strategic HRM, critical features of the different contexts in which they are applied are examined.For this fifth edition, there is increased coverage of contemporary topics, including capital markets and increasing financialisation, Industry 4.0, the shaping of employee voice under different varieties of capitalism and the effects of austerity. Strategy and Human Resource Management retains, however, the classic sources that are fundamental to the subject while also including important theoretical advances and the best new studies of strategies in the world of work and people.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Strategy and Human Resource Management
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, GB
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350309869
• ISBN 13: 9781350309869
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 5th or later Edition
• Condition: New
• Weight: 700 grams

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Synopsis

Strategy and Human Resource Management is concerned with examining how HR strategy impacts on an organisation's chances of survival and its relative success, and with understanding how it varies across important organisational, industry and societal contexts. It takes an analytical approach, which examines and explains what managers do and why they do it before offering any sort of prescription for what the authors think they should do. This approach is grounded in research but is brought to life with examples, cases and vignettes to offer a practice-orientated analysis of the subject. As well as explaining important general principles in strategic HRM, critical features of the different contexts in which they are applied are examined.

For this fifth edition, there is increased coverage of contemporary topics, including capital markets and increasing financialisation, Industry 4.0, the shaping of employee voice under different varieties of capitalism and the effects of austerity. Strategy and Human Resource Management retains, however, the classic sources that are fundamental to the subject while also including important theoretical advances and the best new studies of strategies in the world of work and people.

About the Authors

Peter Boxall is Professor in Human Resource Management at the University of Auckland Business School.

John Purcell is Visiting Professor at the School of Management, Bath University, UK.