Overview
- Casestudy approach bringing HRM alive for students and demonstrating direct relevance to real business life
Thematic rather than techniquesoriented approach taking students beyond simply learning best practice and techniques
Makes students aware of the wider context of HRM helping students to evaluate and critique HR techniques and best practice
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
A key course text for advanced undergraduates and MBA students of human resource management. By using a thematic rather than a techniques-based structure, this book provides an opportunity to engage with current problems and issues by going beyond the normal emphasis on best practice and techniques and developing an awareness of the wider context.
Accompanied by a website at http://www.palgrave.com/business/newell containing lecturer support materials, this text presents the key themes underpinning an understanding of human resource management through the use of detailed research-based case studies.
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http://www.palgrave.com/business/newell/index.asp
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
HELEN NEWELL is Lecturer in Industrial Relations and Personnel Management at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
HARRY SCARBROUGH is Research Director and Professor of Organisational Analysis at Leicester University Management Centre
HARRY SCARBROUGH is Research Director and Professor of Organisational Analysis at Leicester University Management Centre
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Human Resource Management in Context
Book Subtitle: A Case Study Approach
Authors: Helen Newell, Harry Scarbrough
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-91364-0
Publisher: Red Globe Press London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2002
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: 272
Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave
Topics: Human Resource Management