Reassessing Human Resource Management - Hardcover

Blyton, Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803986971 ISBN 13: 9780803986978

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1992

Synopsis

Drawing on a wide range of organizational examples, this book brings a new balance to assessing the role and impact of HRM. It looks at the core assumptions of an HRM perspective, and at what happens when organizations seek to implement HRM. The contributors show that there are a number of tensions and contradictions inherent in an HRM concept that raise central issues for practice. They demonstrate that HRM is one approach to employee management that will tend to prevail in certain contexts and conditions rather than universally.

Specific themes include: HRM and competitive success; organizational culture and HRM; HRM, flexibility and decentralization; reward management and HRM; HRM, Just-in-Time manufacturing and new technology; HRM and trade unions; HRM as the management of managerial meaning.

About this title

About the Author

Paul Blyton is Reader in Industrial Relations at the Cardiff Business School, University of Wales. His publications include Time, Work and Organization (1989) and The Climate of Workplace Relations (1991)

Peter Turnbull is Lecturer in Industrial Relations at the Cardiff Business School and co-author of Dock Strike (1992).

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803986971
• ISBN 13: 9780803986978
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Turnbull Peter