Reassessing human resource management

Includes Index.

HRM - Peter Turnbull and Paul Blyton Debates, Dilemmas and Contradictions PART ONE: THE EMERGENCE OF HRM HRM - Mike Noon A Map, Model or Theory? Human Resource Management, Competition and Strategy - Richard Whipp Some Productive Tensions Human Resource Maximization - Rick Delbridge and Peter Turnbull The Management of Labour under Just-in-Time Manufacturing Systems PART TWO: DIMENSIONS OF HRM Organization Culture and Human Resource Management - Emmanuel Ogbonna Dilemmas and Contradictions Empowerment or Emasculation? Shop Floor Surveillance in a Total Quality Organization - Graham Sewell and Barry Wilkinson HRM and the Limits of Flexibility - Paul Blyton and Jonathan Morris Decentralization - Ian Kirkpatrick, Annette Davies and Nick Oliver Friend or Foe of HRM? 'Locating the Line' - James Lowe The Front-Line Supervisor and Human Resource Management Reward Management and HRM - Ian Smith New Technology and Human Resource Management - Caroline Lloyd and Mike Rawlinson PART THREE: MANAGEMENT, UNIONS AND HRM Managers' Attitudes to Human Resource Management - Michael Poole and Roger Mansfield Rhetoric and Reality Human Resource Management and Trade Union Responses - Miguel Martinez Lucio and Syd Weston Bringing the Politics of the Workplace Back into the Debate PART FOUR: A NEW FORM OF MANAGEMENT PRACTICE? HRM - Tom Keenoy and Peter Anthony Metaphor, Meaning and Morality Afterword - Paul Blyton and Peter Turnbull

Takes a critical look at the received wisdom of Human Resources Management. Using case studies, the authors examine its growth, core assumptions and territorial claims, how far it provides a coherent strategy of employee management, and in what conditions it will continue to be the chosen approach.