Realities of Human Resource Management: Managing the Employment Relationship (Managing Work and Organizations) - Hardcover

Sisson, Keith; Storey, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0335206212 ISBN 13: 9780335206216

Publisher: Open University Press, 2000

Synopsis

This text provides a succinct analysis of themes and topics relevent to the management of human resources. It covers issues of critical contemporary importance such as restructuring, continuous improvement, involvment and participation, pay and working time, training and development, recruitment and selection. It also looks at the implications o f contextual changes such as the signing of the "social chapter" of the EU Maastricht Treaty, and movement towards European Economic and Monetary Union. Three features in particular distinguish this volume: it deals with the individual and the collective aspects of managing the employment relationship; in analysing thinking in both areas, it takes account of the large body of empirical research that is available and identifies what it all means for the practitioner; and the distinctive style gives it an immediacy.

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About the Author

Keith Sisson is Emeritus Professor of Industrial Relations at the Industrial Relations Research, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick. Previous books include Personnel Management (1994) and New Forms of Work Organisation: can Europe realise its potential? (1997). John Storey is Professor of Human Resource Management at the Open University Business School and editor ofthe Human Resource Management Journal. His previous books include Developments in the Management of Human Resources (1992), Human Resource Management: A Critical Text (1995) and, with Edwards and Sisson, Managers in the Making (1997).

Edition details

• Publisher: Open University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0335206212
• ISBN 13: 9780335206216
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288