Strategic Human Resource Management

This innovative text applies a systems theory perspective to strategic human resource management, drawing particularly on the Viable Systems Model and soft systems methodology. This text will be suitable for upper-level undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA stdents of strategic HRM, HRM and strategic management.

Autorentext

Nigel Bassett-Jones is a currently a senior lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, UK, following his retirement as the Head of Department of Organisational and Management Studies. His research interests lie at the intersection of human resource management, innovation, and systems theory. He is the author of several book chapters and various journal articles and conference contributions. He has worked as a consultant specialising in organisation and management development serving both public and private sector organisations and has taught on MA, MBA and MSc programmes in various institutions in the UK and contributed as a visiting lecturer on MBA programmes in Finland, France and South Africa.

Inhalt

1. Strategic HRM and the Systems Perspective 2. What is a System and What is the Value Of A Systems Approach? 3. The Organisation as a System 4. Organisational Orientations to the Labour Market and Their Implications 5. Labour Markets, HR Planning, and Recruitment and Selection 6. Pay and Reward Policies and Practices and Their Implications for Corporate Culture 7. Industrial and Employee Relations through a Systems Lens 8. The Challenges of Managing Innovation through Diversity 9. Leadership and Followership from a Systems Perspective 10. Delivering Solutions to Complex Organizational Problems Using Soft Systems Modelling 11. A Critical Evaluation of the Systems Perspective in HRM