Human Resource Management in the Workplace

Human Resource Management in the Workplace is not a prescriptive ‘how to practice HR’ manual. Structured in 3 parts this text provides a primer to reflecting critically about workplace issues and HRM responses. It does not take a prescriptive or functional approach to HRM practice, rather it develops the reader’s skills in thinking about HRM in the workplace – the context it operates in, the challenges it faces, the duties it has. The book introduces HRM, its practical, legal, theoretical and ideological influences; it explores a range of contemporary HRM challenges for workplaces; and finally it looks at how HR practitioners can plan and influence good HRM decision making at work.

Human Resource Management in the Workplace recognises that HRM is practised as much by line managers as by HR professionals. While aimed at undergraduate students studying human resource management who will have little prior knowledge, it will also appeal to practitioners or post experience students with knowledge of HR practices but a desire to integrate or consolidate their existing knowledge in a more critical forum.