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This highly engaging, bestselling textbook, now in its eighth edition offers a comprehensive examination of contemporary human resource management issues and debates. Aimed at undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA students, this title provides an authoritative source for students of CIPD Advanced qualifications.

Human Resource Management

• HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT


• HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT A CONTEMPORARY APPROACH


• BRIEF CONTENTS


• CONTENTS


• GUIDED TOUR


• PREFACE


• PLAN OF THE BOOK


• HOW TO USE THIS BOOK


• CONTRIBUTORS


• Figures


• Tables


• Text


• PART 1 HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND ITS ORGANISATIONAL CONTEXT


• CHAPTER 1 AN INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT


• Objectives


• Introduction


• Definitions of HRM


• High commitment versus control


• The origins of HRM


• Models of HRM


• Contingency: The matching model


• Universalism: More is better


• HRM and organisational performance


• HRM in practice


• The legacy of the recession on HRM practice


• The impact of HRM on the roles of HR professionals


• HR competence


• Concluding comments


• Summary


• Questions


• References and further reading


• CHAPTER 2 STRATEGIC HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT


• Objectives


• Introduction


• Understanding the business context


• The nature of business strategy


• Approaches to the strategy-making process


• Classical or rational-planning approach


• Evolutionary approach


• Processual approach


• Systemic approach


• The rise of SHRM


• Exploring the relationship between strategic management and SHRM: The best-fit school of SHRM


• Lifecycle models


• Competitive advantage models


• Configurational models


• Limitations of the best-fit models of SHRM


• The resource-based view of SHRM


• The VRIO framework


• Value


• Rarity


• Inimitability