Strategic Human Resource ManagementContemporary
Approach
By Mike Millmore, et al.
June 2007
Distributed by Trans-Atlantic Publications
Pearson / Prentice Hall
ISBN: 9780273681632
572 Pages, Illustrated
$117.50 paper original
This key textbook will become core reading for students studying a module
on Human Resource Strategy at upper level Uundergraduate, MBA and Masters
level. The author team have proved successful with students and academics
alike with their market leading Research Methods for Business Students and,
more recently, Employee Relations.
As people and their capabilities are core to an organisations’ competitive
advantage, the planning and implementing of strategies including the human resource becomes
a focus of all managers in a business. This new text successfully integrates
HR strategy with the overall business strategy, examining both how the HR function
contributes to, and is affected by that strategy.
A true teaching and learning resource, the book combines cutting edge coverage
of issues such as performance management and measurement, strategic reward systems,
the learning organisation and managing knowledge for strategic advantage, with
a wealth of examples, self-assessment exercises and encouragement to critique.
Contents
Brief Table of Contents
Chapter 1 – Strategy and Human Resource Management
Chapter 2 - Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM): a vital piece in the
jigsaw of organisational success?
Chapter 3 – SHRM in a changing and shrinking world: internationalisation
of business and the role of SHRM.
Chapter 4 - Evaluating Strategic Human Resource Management: why bother and
does it really happen in practice?
Chapter 5 – The role of organisational structure in SRHM: the basis for
effectiveness?
Chapter 6 - Relationships between Culture and Strategic Human Resource Management:
do values have consequences?
Chapter 7 - Strategic Human Resource Planning – the weakest link?
Chapter 8 - Strategic Recruitment & Selection: much ado about nothing?
Chapter 9 - Performance Management: so much more than annual appraisal
Chapter 10 - Strategic Human Resource Development (SHRD): pot of gold or chasing
rainbows?
Chapter 11 - Strategic Reward Management: Cinderella is on her way to the ball
Chapter 12 - Managing the Employment Relationship: Strategic Rhetoric and Operational
Reality
Chapter 13 - Diversity Management: concern for legislation, concern for
strategy?
Chapter 14 - Downsizing: proactive strategy or reactive workforce reduction?
Features
- Coverage of the most important strategic models and both rational and emergent perspectives ensures comprehensive treatment.
- An initial framework is presented and helps students to analyse theories in later chapters.
- FT articles and longer case studies provide the links with practice that this subject particularly requires.
- The authors’ renowned accessible writing style and connection with their student audience ensures a definitively useful and rigorous guide to SHRM.
- A glossary of key terms helps with revision and thorough understanding of the relevant vocabulary.
Additional Support material
- For lecturers a guide offers chapter-by-chapter commentary and teaching suggestions, answers to all self check and reflect and case study questions, references and Powerpoint slides.
- For students there are annotated weblinks and self-assessment question material.
Author
Adrian Thornhill, Phil Lewis and Mike Millmore all work in the HR department
at University of Gloucestershire. Mark Saunders is Professor of Research
Methods in the Business School at Oxford Brookes University.
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