An indispensable resource for students and researchers in the field, the Handbook grounds the reader in the fundamentals of human resource management whilst contextualizing practice within wider theoretical considerations.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on Contributors
• The Framing of Human Resource Management
• 1 Field of Human Resource Management - Adrian Wilkinson, Tom Redman, Scott A. Snell and Nicolas Bacon
• 2 Human Resources Management: A Historical Perspective - Howard Gospel
• 3 Models of Strategic Human Resource Management - Saba Colakoglu, Ying Hong and David P. Lepak
• 4 The Employment Relationship - John W. Budd and Devasheesh Bhave
• 5 The Regulative Framework for HRM - Michael Barry
• 6 The Evolution of HR Strategy: Adaptations to Increasing Global Complexity - Shad S. Morris and Scott A. Snell
• 7 Strong Situations and Firm Performance: A Proposed Re-Conceptualization of the Role of the HR Function - John J. Haggerty and Patrick M. Wright
• 8 International and Comparative Human Resource Management - Richard Hall and Nick Wailes
• Fundamentals of Human Resource Management
• 9 Recruitment and Selection - Filip Lievens and Derek Chapman
• 10 Training and Development in Organizations - Phyllis Tharenou
• 11 Management and Leadership Development - Christopher Mabey and Tim Finch-Lees
• 12 Understanding Performance Management and Appraisal: Supervisory and Employee Perspectives - Michelle Brown and Victoria S. Lim
• 13 Compensation - Barry Gerhart
• 14 HRM and Equal Opportunities - Anne-Marie Greene
• 15 Involvement and Participation - Graham Dietz, Adrian Wilkinson and Tom Redman
• 16 Extending the Reach of Job Design Theory: Going Beyond the Job Characteristics Model - Sharon K. Parker and Sandra Ohly
• 17 Occupational Health and Safety in the Modern World of Work - Rebecca Loudoun and Richard Johnstone
• 18 Industrial Relations and Collective Bargaining - Thomas A. Kochan and Greg J. Bamber
• 19 Discipline and Grievances - Brian S. Klaas
• 20 Downsizing and Redundancy - Wayne F. Cascio
• Contemporary Issues
• 21 Strategic Human Resources Management: Where Do We Go From Here? - Brian E. Becker and Mark A. Huselid
• 22 The Employee Experience of Work - Francis Green, Katy Huxley and Keith Whitfield
• 23 Human Resource Management in Developing Countries - Pawan S. Budhwar and Yaw A. Debrah
• 24 HRM and National Economic Performance - Jonathan Michie
• 25 Human Resource Management and the Resource Based View - Paul Boselie and Jaap Paauwe
• 26 Complexity-Based Agile Enterprises: Putting Self-Organizing Emergence to Work - Lee Dyer and Jeff Ericksen
• 27 Human Resource Management across Organizational Boundaries - Mick Marchington, Fang Lee Cooke and Gail Hebson
• 28 Ethics and HRM - Chris Provis
• 29 Working Time and Work-Life Balance - Janet Walsh
• Sectoral Perspectives
• 30 Human Resource Management in the Service Sector - Jody Hoffer Gittell and Rob Seidner
• 31 HRM in Small Firms: Respecting and Regulating Informality - Paul Edwards and Monder Ram
• 32 HRM in Multinational Companies - Anthony Ferner
• 33 Human Resource Management in the Public Sector - Stephen Bach