The second edition of this course reader provides a comprehensive, contemporary and critical review of the key issues in strategic human resource management. This book features works of some of the most influential writers through a series of carefully edited articles on topics including performance, pay, ethics, culture, change and leadership.

This book helps managers and students of management to makes sense of the competing advice on how to change organisations in order to improve their effectiveness. Helps managers to understand how their organisations’ performance could be improved. Presents an overview of the advice on organisational improvement facing managers. Classifies and evaluates various different approaches. Highlights the relationships between strategy and capability. (view table of contents)

Decision Making for Business gathers crucial contributions to our understanding of decision making and assembles them to form a coherent and sustained analysis of the key factors that influence the process. The selected articles are stimulating, provocative and analytical, resulting in a critical, comprehensive and innovative analysis of decision making. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Despite sweeping changes in organisational theory and practice, most productive activity still takes place within organisations. This volume makes it clear that despite waves of change, organisational theory remains vially relevant to todays student of business...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Building on the success of the first edition, Christopher Mabey and Graeme Salaman are joined by John Storey in producing an even more comprehensive and thoroughly revised textbook. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The emergence of the resource-based view of the firm has meant that, increasingly, issues in human resource management occupy a central place in the agenda of management and strategy. This textbook brings together outstanding contributions from some of the leading thinkers in contemporary management to consider a range of debates around: the morality and ethics of management; the consumer culture; the influence of the service ethic and Total Quality Management; flexible working, new organizational forms and networks; and knowledge creation and the impact of technology...read more

This text covers the integration of human resource strategies (HRS) within corporate objectives. The authors combine current theory and practice to show that it is vital for organizations of all sizes and sectors to have a human resource strategy for success of the organization. The text is international in outlook and contains clear, boxed guides to chapter topics, activity and revision questions, introductions to chapter structure and content and summaries at the end of each chapter. Major case studies and many international examples are used throughout to illustrate the theory of human resource strategies. The text is accompanied by a comprehensive Instructor's Manual including lecture notes, acetate masters, chapter objectives and summaries, questions and answers.

This text offers a conceptual model of management - as responsibility for the quality of subordinates' work - and identifies the constituent skills necessary for the effective management of others' performance. The author suggests a new and radical conception of managerial work and what is required for managers to develop the requisite skills. His view of management is based on management learning. He offers models of how people learn and how to help others learn. He also suggests that, for most managers, the key skills of management are not only difficult, they are actually counter to their normal working habits. They have frequently been trained, he argues, to be incompetent. Accordingly, Salaman provides practical suggestions to help managers develop appropriate management skills.

Product Description: Few would disagree with the principle that successful achievement of an organization's overall strategic objectives is bound up with the design and implementation of appropriate human resource strategies (HRS). Yet many questions remain about what is entailed in implementing effective HRS...read more

Product Description: Graeme Salaman offers an alternative approach to the sociology of work in an attempt to move away from the restrictive dominant models. He argues that more attention should be paid to social relationships in the work context.

Product Description: Designed for use by undergraduate and graduate students in sociology and MBA courses on organizational development, these essays by prominent scholars provide a general overview of theory and research on organizations, from the classic work of Weber, Durkheim, and Marx, to the most recent theoretical and empirical advances...read more

Product Description: This book is concerned with the relationship between a man's work and his leisure time, in its broadest sense. At the opposite extreme to the 'instrumental' attitude, where the worker keeps his work and leisure time completely separate, is the close involvement in work and the correspondingly close relationship between working and non-working identities characteristic of 'occupational communities'...read more