Management, Work and Organisation Series
Series Editors:
Gibson Burrell, The Management Centre, University of Leicester
Mick Marchington, Manchester Business School
Paul Thompson, University of Strathclyde
This series of textbooks covers the areas of Human Resource Management, Employee Relations, Organisational Behaviour and related Business and Management fields. Each text has been specially commissioned to be written by a leading expert in a clear and accessible way. An important feature of the series is the international orientation. The titles contain serious and challenging material, are analytical rather than prescriptive, and are suitable for use by students with no prior specialist knowledge.
The series is relevant for a number of business and management courses, including MBA and post-experience courses, specialist Masters and postgraduate diplomas, professional courses, and final year undergraduate courses.
New in the Series
Public Management
A Critical Text
Ian Greener, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Management at Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK
Taking a critical approach, Ian Greener examines the key concepts and ideas of public management, not only in terms of their efficacy, but also in their private management and societal context. The text takes an international perspective and throughout the text comparative case studies introduce students to public management ideas from the US, the UK, and Europe.
March 2009 232pp
Paperback £26.99 978-0-230-20328-0
Reading Management and Organization in Film
Emma Bell, School of Management at the University of Bath
'It is traditional to say of a superbly written and insightful book like this that it is unputdownable. But Emma Bells book presses the reader, time and again, to put down the book and look at the films she writes so engagingly about, before picking up the book again for further invaluable insights into both management and the films themselves. - Tony Watson, Nottingham Trent University, UK
May 2008 240pp
Paperback £23.99 978-0-230-52092-9
Rethinking Reward
Susan Corby, University of Greenwich Business School, UK
Steve Palmer, London Metropolitan University, UK
Esmond Lindop is an Independent Consultant
Not just another textbook on pay and benefits but a work in which the top specialists in each aspect of reward focus on the issues of the moment whether pensions, the implications of age discrimination legislation or multinationals attempts at cohesive international remuneration strategies. They also identify the most significant areas of change in compensation practice, incorporating the latest research and challenge conventional thinking, providing a truly critical perspective. An invaluable addition for both practitioners and sophisticated students.
October 2008 288pp
Paperback £26.99 978-0-230-53723-1
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BESTSELLER
Strategy and Human Resource Management
2nd edition
Peter Boxall Professor of Human Resource Management, University of Auckland, New Zealand, and John Purcell Strategic Academic Adviser, ACAS, and Research Professor at Warwick University, UK
This second edition of one of our bestselling texts provides a critical yet accessible account of the strategic role of HRM within organizations. Updated to include the latest research, it expands the discussion of goals in HRM, builds a new typology of HR systems, contains new material on organisational culture and climate, and more fully examines HRM in services and the public sector.
December 2007 384pp
Paperback £29.99 978-1-4039-9210-9
Voice, Visibility and the Gendering of Organizations
Ruth Simpson & Patricia Lewis both at Brunel Business School, Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
Voice, Visibility and the Gendering of Organizations examines how gender is linked to organizations and accounts for the differences in the experiences of men and women in the world of work. The book is structured around the two interrelated concepts of visibility and voice, which are the key themes in the gender/organization literature.
December 2007 112pp
Paperback £26.99 978-1-4039-9057-0
Exploring Identity
Concepts and Methods
Alison Pullen The University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, and an Honorary Fellow at The University of Bristol, UK, Nic Beech Professor of Management at St Andrews University, UK, and Visiting Professor at Strathclyde University, UK, David Sims Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Associate Dean, and Director of the Centre for Leadership, Learning and Change at Cass Business School, City University, London, UK.
Exploring Identity brings together leading thinkers from around the world in an exploration of identity as a key concept in understanding the dynamics of organizations and the people who inhabit them. It develops key themes in current research and demonstrates the significance of identity studies to the real world.
December 2007 368pp
Paperback £26.99 978-1-4039-8983-3
Gendering Emotions in Organizations
Patricia Lewis & Ruth Simpson both at Brunel Business School, Brunel University, UK
Gendering Emotions in Organizations is an edited collection that explores the connections between gender and emotion in organizations. In its examination of these connections, this book focuses on two specific areas: emotional labour and the gendered nature of the expression of feelings at work.
May 2007 208pp
Paperback £26.99 978-0-230-00148-0
Re-Thinking the Future of Work
Directions and Visions
Colin C. Williams, University of Sheffield, UK
How will work be organised in the future? With its global perspective and critical approach, Re-Thinking the Future of Work provides not only an overview and examination of the array of competing visions, but also a radical rethink about the direction of change.
February 2007 360pp
Paperback £23.99 978-1-4039-9371-7
Searching for the Human in Human Resource Management
Theory, Practice and Workplace Contexts
Sharon Bolton, Strathclyde University Business School, UK Maeve Houlihan, UCD Business Schools, University College Dublin, Ireland
A highly original collection penned by leading critical thinkers in the field of organization studies and HRM, each concerned to resituate people at the heart of HRM and organizational analysis. It offers contributions in three key areas: theory, practice and workplace contexts.
April 2007 336pp
Paperback £25.99 978-0-230-01935-5
Making Projects Critical
Damian Hodgson Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK, Svetlana Cicmil Bristol Business School, University of the West of England, UK
'Hodgson and Cicmil have produced one of the most intelligent and stimulating books addressing the understanding of projects and their role(s) within the organization(s).' - Professor Christophe N. Bredillet, Director of ESC Lille's Postgraduate Studies and Programmes, University of Lille, France
2006 376pp
Paperback £27.99 978-1-4039-4085-8
BESTSELLER
Human Resource Management
Rhetorics and Realities
Anniversary edition
Karen Legge professor of Organisational Behaviour at Warwick Business School, UK
Human Resource Management: Rhetorics and Realites remains a classic text examining the role and place of HRM in contemporary society. A decade on, the anniversary edition brings the debate up-to-date, and explores the changes and developments that have taken place since its original publication in 1995.
2004 448pp
Paperback £29.99 978-1-4039-3600-4
BESTSELLER
The Dynamics of Employee Relations
3rd edition
Paul Blyton & Peter Turnbull both at Cardiff Business School, University of Wales, Cardiff, UK
Written in a lively and readable style, it captures the essence of working reality within a variety of working environments.
April 2004 448pp
Paperback £28.99 978-0-333-94836-1
BESTSELLER
Leadership
Limits and Possibilities
Keith Grint Lancaster Leadership Centre at Lancaster Management School, UK
Leadership provides a critical review and analysis of the key components of leadership. Against an historical backdrop, the text explores the foundations of good leadership, the relationship between leaders and subordinates and the role leaders play in the dynamics of organisational life. Taking a critical perspective, this text is an ideal course companion for undergraduate and MBA students studying leadership.
2005 192pp
Paperback £27.99 978-0-333-96387-6
Skills, Training & Human Resource Development
A Critical Text
Irena Grugulis Professor of Employment Studies and the Head of the Human Resource Management Group at Bradford University School of Management, UK
2006 272pp
Paperback £25.99 978-1-4039-4802-1
Critical Cases in Organisational Behaviour
Martin Corbett Senior Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour at Warwick Business School, Warwick University, UK
1994 300pp
Hardback £57.50 978-0-333-57750-9
Paperback £28.99 978-0-333-57751-6
Human Resource Management in Service Work
Marek Korczynski Loughborough University, UK
2001 256pp
Hardback £65.00 978-0-333-77440-3
Paperback £27.99 978-0-333-77441-0
The Organisation of Employment
An International Perspective
Jill Rubery & Damian Grimshaw both at Manchester School of Management, UMIST, UK
2002 320pp
Paperback £28.99 978-0-333-80236-6
International Human Resource Management
A Critical Text
Hugh Scullion University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK & Margaret Linehan Cork Institute of Technology, Republic of Ireland
2005 344pp
Paperback £27.99 978-0-333-74139-9
