The SAGE Handbook of Human Resource Management

Adrian Wilkinson

SAGE Publications, Nov 25, 2009 - Business & Economics - 592 pages

In the first collection of its kind, The SAGE Handbook of Human Resource Management brings together contributions from leading, international scholars in an accessible, comprehensive and influential collection that combines both global and interdisciplinary perspectives. An indispensable resource for advanced students and researchers in the field, the Handbook focuses on familiarizing the reader with the fundamentals of applied human resource management while contextualizing practice within wider theoretical considerations. Internationally minded chapters combine a critical overview with discussion of key debates and research, plus comprehensively dealing with important emerging interests.

Contents

• 1 Field of Human Resource Management: 3
• A Historical Perspective: 12
• 3 Models of Strategic Human Resource Management: 31
• 4 The Employment Relationship: 51
• 5 The Regulative Framework for HRM: 71
• Adaptations to Increasing Global Complexity: 84
• A Proposed ReConceptualization of the Role of the HR Function: 100
• 8 International and Comparative Human Resource Management: 115
• PART II Fundamentals of Human Resource Management: 133
• 9 Recruitment and Selection: 135
• 10 Training and Development in Organizations: 155
• 11 Management and Leadership Development: 173
• Supervisory and Employee Perspectives: 191
• 13 Compensation: 210
• 14 HRM and Equal Opportunities: 231
• 15 Involvement and Participation: 245
• Going Beyond the Job Characteristics Model: 269
• 17 Occupational Health and Safety in the Modern World of Work: 286
• 18 Industrial Relations and Collective Bargaining: 308
• 19 Discipline and Grievances: 322
• 20 Downsizing and Redundancy: 336
• PART III Contemporary Issues: 349
• Where Do We Go From Here?: 351
• 22 The Employee Experience of Work: 377
• 23 Human Resource Management in Developing Countries: 393
• 24 HRM and National Economic Performance: 407
• 25 Human Resource Management and the Resource Based View: 421
• Putting SelfOrganizing Emergence to Work: 438
• 27 Human Resource Management across Organizational Boundaries: 460
• 28 Ethics and HRM: 475
• 29 Working Time and WorkLife Balance: 490
• PART IV Sectoral Perspectives: 507
• 30 Human Resource Management in the Service Sector: 509
• Respecting and Regulating Informality: 524
• 32 HRM in Multinational Companies: 541
• 33 Human Resource Management in the Public Sector: 561
• Index: 578

About the author

Adrian Wilkinson is Professor at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia and is Visiting Professor at the University of Sheffield and an Academic Fellow at the Centre for International Human Resource Management at the Judge Institute, University of Cambridge. Adrian has authored, co-authored and edited some 30 books, over 150 articles in refereed journals and numerous book chapters. nbsp; Recent books (with co-authors): The Oxford Handbook of Management (OUP, 2017), A very short, fairly interesting and reasonably cheap book about employment relations (Sage, 2017), The Routledge Companion to Employment Relations (Routledge, 2018), The Sage Handbook of Human Resource Management (Sage, 2019) , The Future of Work and Employment (Elgar, 2020), Case Studies in Work, Employment and Human Resource Management (Elgar, 2020) and the Handbook of Research on Employee Voice (Elgar, 2020.) He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development in the UK and a Fellow of the Australian Human Resource Institute. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences.

Before joining Durham University Business School, Tom was Professor of Human Resource Management at the University of Sheffield. Prior to this he was Professor of HRM at the University of Teesside. Tom spent 10 years in industry in quality, production and HR management positions (mainly with Royal Worcester Porcelain) prior to re-entering academic life.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The SAGE Handbook of Human Resource Management
• Editor: Adrian Wilkinson
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, 2009
• ISBN: 141292829X, 9781412928298
• Length: 592 pages
• Subjects: Business & Economics / Human Resources & Personnel Management