Human Resource Management

Beardwell & Thompson's text offers a critical, social-science focused approach to HRM which caters for the students studying HRM at the higher level of undergraduate as well as being suited to those on MBA and postgraduate courses. This text has a specialised International HRM section, which gives it a competitive edge over others, and makes it suitable for a wider range of courses. It is also mapped closely to the relevant CIPD modules, and is edited and authored by academics who are heavily involved with the CIPD.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Breif Contents -- Contents -- Guided tour -- Preface -- Plan of the book -- How to use this book -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- PART 1 HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND ITS ORGANISATIONAL CONTEXT -- Introduction to Part 1 -- 1 An introduction to human resource management -- Julie Beardwell -- Objectives -- Case study: Winning HRM practice: simply Business -- Introduction -- Definitions of HRM -- The origins of HRM -- Models of HRM -- HRM and organisational performance -- HRM in practice -- The impact of HRM on the roles of HR professionals

HR competence -- Concluding comments -- Summary -- Case study: The future of work: the journey to 2022 -- References and further reading -- 2 Strategic human resource management -- Heather Connolly and Julie Beardwell -- Objectives -- Case study: Taking the 'low road' in big business -- Introduction -- Understanding the business context -- Approaches to the strategy-making process -- The rise of SHRM -- Exploring the relationship between strategic management and SHRM: The best-fit school of SHRM -- Limitations of the best-fit models of SHRM -- The resource-based view of SHRM

Best-practice SHRM: high…