Strategic Human Resource Management: Corporate Rhetoric and Human Reality

by Katie Truss, Veronica Hope-Hailey, Lynda Gratton

Overview

Life is tough in organizations, both for managers and the managed. Based on close collaboration with a number of high profile organizations such as BT, Citibank, Hewlett Packard, and Kraft Jacobs, this book sheds light on the organizational responses to large scale changes and details the changing demands made of employees in the process. It goes beyond fashionable management rhetoric to uncover the reality of human resource management.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198782049
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date:	05/28/1999
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

All four authors worked together on this project at the London Business School. The team has now dispersed to other leading UK business schools.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Soft and Hard Models of Human Resource Management
3. Performance Management in Fast-changing Environments
4. The Rhetoric and Reality of 'New Careers'
5. Managing Culture
6. Contextual Diversity for the role and Practice of HR
7. HRM policies and Management Practices
8. Transformation at the Leading Edge
9. People Processes as a Source of Competitive Advantage
10. The Emerging Themes