Strategic human resource management : contemporary issues

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Author:

Millmore, Mike.

ISBN:

9780273681632

Publication Information:

Harlow : Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2007.

Physical Description:

xxv, 572 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Contents:

Strategy and human resource management -- Strategic human resource management : a vital piece in the jigsaw of organisational success? -- SHRM in a changing and shrinking world : internationalisation of business and the role of SHRM -- Evaluating SHRM : why bother and does it really happen in practice? : with Denise Skinner -- The role of organisational structure in SHRM : the basis for effectiveness? -- Relationships between culture and SHRM : do values have consequences? -- Strategic human resource planning : the weakest link? -- Strategic recruitment and selection : much ado about nothing? -- Performance management : so much more than annual appraisal -- Strategic human resource development : pot of gold or chasing rainbows? -- Strategic reward management : Cinderella is on her way to the ball -- Managing the employment relationship : strategic rhetoric and operational reality -- Diversity management : concern for legislation or concern for strategy? : Savita Kumra -- Downsizing : proactive strategy or reactive workforce reduction?

Abstract:

This new text successfully integrates HR strategy with the overall business strategy, examining both how the HR function contributes to, and is affected by that strategy. It combines cutting edge coverage of issues such as performance management and measurement, with a wealth of examples, self-assessment exercises and more.

Subject Term:

Personnel management.

Added Author:

Millmore, Mike.

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This key textbook will become core reading for students studying a module on Human Resource Strategy at upper level Uundergraduate, MBA and Masters level. The author team have proved successful with students and academics alike with their market leading Research Methods for Business Students and, more recently, Employee Relations .

As people and their capabilities are core to an organisations' competitive advantage, the planning and implementing of strategies including the human resource becomes a focus of all managers in a business. This new text successfully integrates HR strategy with the overall business strategy, examining both how the HR function contributes to, and is affected by that strategy.

A true teaching and learning resource, the book combines cutting edge coverage of issues such as performance management and measurement, strategic reward systems, the learning organisation and managing knowledge for strategic advantage, with a wealth of examples, self-assessment exercises and encouragement to critique.