This volume presents a perspective on international trends in human resource management, the strategic advances they offer and the companies that have used them to achieve competitive success. It focuses on understanding the complex interrelationships between these innovations and competitive success and in providing managers with an informed perspective on the implications which radical restructuring has for operating efficiency. The text integrates three theoretical perspectives on human resource management throughout - agency theory, transaction costs and the resource based theory of the firm. The work also covers managing without traditional strategic planning, hierarchy, conventional owners, unions, personnel managers, supervisors, quality boundaries and a full-time workforce. It explores how innovative HRM approaches can help achieve competitive success and looks at innovations in organizational design and their implications for managers, personnel practitioners and employees.
- ISBN10 0201427745
- ISBN13 9780201427745
- Publish Date 15 June 1995
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 October 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pearson Education Limited
- Imprint Addison Wesley
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 352
- Language English