Searching for the Human in Human Resource Management Theory, Practice and Workplace Contexts

Name: Searching for the Human in Human Resource Management Theory, Practice and Workplace Contexts
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ISBN: 9780230019355

ISBN-10: 0230019358

ISBN-13: 9780230019355

Edition: 2007

Authors: Maeve Houlihan, Sharon C. Bolton, Gibson Burrell, Mick Marchington, Paul Thompson

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This volume is a contributed text that changes the traditional way in which the management of people is often viewed solely within an economic framework by acknowledging that human relations are social, reciprocal, multi-dimensional and embedded in group and societal dynamics.

Book details

Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 5/15/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English




Beginning the search for the H in HRM




Moral economy and employment




Searching for the human in empirical research on the HRM-organisational performance link : a meta-theoretical approach




The human side of skills and knowledge




Making capital : strategic dilemmas for HRM




HRM and the menu society : the fetishisation of individual choice at work




Putting the missing H into HRM : the case of the flexible organisation




'HAVE IT YOUR WAY' : resources, citizens and the culture of deceit




Searching for the human in the HR practice of diversity




Human resource development or developing human capability?




Disconnected workplaces : interests and identities in the 'high performance' factory




Rethinking humanity in care work - extract from Hardwork : Life in Low-pay Britain




Risky business : re-thinking the human in interactive service work




HRM is redundant? : professions, immaterial labour and the future of work




Disrupting identity : trust and angst in management consulting