Explaining the Performance of Human Resource Management - Couverture souple

Fleetwood, Steve

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521699355 ISBN 13 : 9780521699358

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

This book challenges the widely held view that we can scientifically measure the link between human resource management and organizational performance.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Human resource departments increasingly use the statistical analysis of performance indicators as a way of demonstrating their contribution to organizational performance. In this book, Steve Fleetwood and Anthony Hesketh take issue with this 'scientific' approach by arguing that its preoccupation with statistical analysis is misplaced because it fails to take account of the complexities of organizations and the full range of issues that influence individual performance. The book is split into three parts. Part I deconstructs research into the alleged link between people and business performance by showing that it cannot explain the associations it alleges. Part II attributes these shortcomings to the importation of spurious 'scientific' methods, before going on to suggest more appropriate methods that might be used in future. Finally, Part III explores how HR executives and professionals understand their work and shows how a critical realist stance adds value to this understanding through enhanced explanation.

Revue de presse

'... this book speaks well to the UK tradition of empirical workplace research, and is a valid plea for theoretical rigour in a world where churning out academic articles is now an end in itself ... it is a uniquely challenging and thought-provoking contribution that should appeal to all academics and researchers concerned with understanding the [world] of work.' Industrial Relations Journal

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521699355
• ISBN 13: 9780521699358
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 362
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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