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Human Resource Management: a Very Short Introduction
No full textAdrian Wilkinson reviews the historical development of human resource management, showing how the changes in political, legal, and macroeconomic spheres have shaped how human resources are managed. Considering HRM in a global world, he considers how it is adapting to a very different work landscape. - Considers the ways human resource management functions in our global world, and how it copes with issues such as competition, regulation, cultural differences, and remote working - Uses cases and examples to analyse the development of human resource management - Shows how the changes in political, legal, social, and macroeconomic spheres have shaped how human resources are managed - Describes how the key players and watershed moments in labour history led to the state of human resource management today - Part of the Very Short Introductions series - over ten million copies sold worldwideNo Full Tex
Employment relations and human resource management.
No full textThis chapter locates the emergence and significance of key intersections of Human Resource Management (HRM) and Employment Relations (ER) in a threefold manner. First, the chapter traces the origins of HRM, highlighting the importance of longstanding domain assumptions which formed the conceptual heritage of the term. Second, the chapter explores key waves of research that have characterised the field since the mid-1980s, including an emphasis on strategy, HRM-Performance linkages, and employee outcomes. Third, the chapter draws on a 5C framework to provide a critical evaluation of HRM. Overall, this serves to illuminate the value of more employment relations grounded understanding and on-going conversation between related modes of thinking about the management of people at work in contemporary society
Providence College Faculty Author Series 2012-2013: Dr. Adrian Weimer
No full textDr. Adrian Weimer (History, Providence College) discusses her new book Martyrs\u27 Mirror: Persecution and Holiness in Early New England and the cultural importance of martyrdom within Colonial America
Providence College Faculty Author Series 2012-2013: Dr. Adrian Weimer
No full textDr. Adrian Weimer (History, Providence College) discusses her new book Martyrs\u27 Mirror: Persecution and Holiness in Early New England and the cultural importance of martyrdom within Colonial America
Employee voice and partnership at work
No full textPartnership concerns an aspiration to develop more collaborative relationships between unions (or another representative body) and employers in pursuit of mutual gains. It reflects increasing interest in developing more collaborative arrangements where employers and unions work together in support of the overall success of the organisation. It has thus been used as a shorthand to describe a shift from broadly adversarial to more cooperative employment relations. Within the challenging context of a voluntarist liberal market economy like the UK - and without much state support - the partnership path has been challenging, patchy and uneven. Yet while it has fallen out of favour as a public policy goal in many liberal market economies, numerous voluntary workplace partnership projects have proved enduring at the organisational level and continue to of valued to by employers and unions. As such, and despite a broadly inhospitable environment in many liberal market economies, partnership nevertheless retains relevance in the contemporary world of employment relations
Introduction: Employee voice in emerging economies: Charting new territory
No full textWithin the industrial relations paradigm, employee voice is broadly defined as the ways and means through which employees attempt to have a say and potentially influence organisational affairs about issues that affect their work and the interests of owners and managers (Wilkinson, Donaghey, Dundon, & Freeman, 2014). Whilst there is an extensive literature on employee voice in the Anglo-American (developed) world (e.g., Freeman, Boxall, & Haynes, 2007; Wilkinson, Gollan, Marchington, & Lewin, 2010), we know much less about how employee voice operates in emerging economies. This special issue of Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations explores the nature of employee voice in seven emerging economies: Argentina, China, India, South Korea, Belarus, South Africa and Namibia. The issue brings together an internationally renowned group of contributors who are experts in their field and an authority on these countries, to combine cutting edge research and theory in this essential exploration of voice in emerging economies.Full Tex
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