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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Keith Townsend |
| ISBN: | 9781786439000 178643900X |
| OCLC Number: | 1090176027 |
| Description: | xi, 374 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents: | Front Matter; Copyright; Contents; List of figures and tables; List of contributors; 1 Theories used in employment relations and human resource management; Part I: Systems and Historical Development; 2 Marxism; 3 Neo-pluralism as a research approach in contemporary employment relations and HRM: complexity and dialogue; 4 Applying Scientific Management to modern employment relations and HRM; 5 Cracking labour process theory in employment relations and HRM; 6 The legacy of the Human Relations School: looking back and moving forward; 7 The theory of high-performance work systems 8 Systems theory: forgotten legacy and future prospects9 Evolutionary psychological theory and human resource management; Part II: Institutions; 10 Personnel economics: managing human resources through performance-related pay; 11 Advances in Labour Regulation Theory; 12 Institutional theory, business systems and employment relations; 13 Varieties of Capitalism; 14 Human resource management and paradox theory; Part III: People and Processes; 15 Revisiting human capital theory: progress and prospects; 16 Feminist theory and employment relations; 17 Trust, distrust and human resource management 18 Social exchange theory, employment relations and human resource management19 Using role theory to understand and solve employment relations and human resources problems; 20 Fairness in the workplace: organizational justice and the employment relationship; 21 Ability, Motivation and Opportunity theory: a formula for employee performance?; 22 The Resource-Based View approach and HRM; 23 LMX and HRM: a multi-level review of how LMX is used to explain the employment relationship; 24 Social mobilization theory in HR and employment relations; Index |
| Series Title: | Elgar introductions to management and organization theory. |
| Other Titles: | Theories of human resources and employment relations |
| Responsibility: | edited by Keith Townsend [and 3 others]. |
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'Bringing together a diverse set of authors of distinguished pedigree, this collection provides an authoritative survey of theories of the employment relationship. Classical theories of work and employment are fully represented, with excellent chapters on Marxism, pluralism, feminism, human relations, labour process and systems theory, but so too are newer theoretical currents, many of which have their point of origin in the broader field of management studies. There are strong chapters on trust, role theory, evolution, paradox, social exchange, RBV and AMO: bodies of thought that are generating fresh understandings of employment and how it is managed. The collection as a whole is an invaluable resource for students, teachers and researchers; a broad-ranging and imaginative survey of how we think about work.' -- Edmund Heery, Cardiff University, UK 'What is wonderful about this book is that in one place you can find all the prominent theories of HR and employment relations. The individual chapters are outstanding, which is what I would have expected from a stellar editorial team and first-rate contributors. A must-read for anybody interested in human resource management.' -- Sir Cary Cooper, CBE, University of Manchester, UK Read more...
