Contemporary Perspectives In Human Resource Management And Organizational Behavior

This book aims to address one of the key challenges facing Human Resource Management (HRM) and Organizational Behavior (OB) researchers. It delves into contemporary topics from which focused research models, ideas, and questions can be developed and tested. HRM and OB are closely related and intersect each other in the examination of practices, which are aimed at managing employees and explaining their behaviors. Proposing to provide researchers with easy access to a slew of contemporary research advancements within the field, this work explores ten contemporary research areas within HRM and OB. Topics include innovative HRM/OB responses in crises, alternative work arrangements for the contemporary workplace, employee mental health, from diversity to inclusion in the workplace, workplace harassment, HRM in small and medium enterprises, alternative perspectives in employee turnover, organizational citizenship and counter-productive work behaviors, leading for work engagement, and employee motivation in a changing environment. Providing researchers with a comprehensive overview of research advances within selected contemporary areas, this book seeks to spur critical thinking, spark alternative research perspectives, innovate extensions to existing theories, and provide the foundation from which focused research can grow and develop within these management fields.

"The most precious asset of organizations is the human component. Two disciplines have so far dealt with this aspect of the organizational endeavor, Human Resources Management (HRM) and Organizational Behavior (OB). While HRM develops theoretical knowledge and methodologies regarding different ways of creating this human resource, OB attempts to understand human behavior in organizations, such as motivation, leadership, evolution of work attitudes, and interpersonal relations in work teams. This book reviews research findings in both these fields and integrates their findings into a unified, comprehensive approach to the area of human functioning in the workplace."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

There is a large body of shared knowledge between the study of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management but despite the crossover, they are often treated as very distinct disciplines. Written by a team of experts across both fields, Organizational Behaviour bridges the gap between OB and HRM, with an emphasis on inter-cultural and cross-cultural perspectives of organizational development, talent management, and leadership. Through a critical analysis of existing literature and case studies, the contributors cover topics such as corporate governance, ethical business practices, employee morale and motivation, performance management, corporate politics and conflict resolution, workplace diversity, creativity, and change management - all within the framework of current global employment standards and best practices.

By problematising core HR topics and presenting significant new developments in the field, this engaging textbook will enable students to develop a nuanced and critical approach to HRM. It integrates students' understanding of the key operational aspects of HRM with the wider institutional, social, political and economic contexts in which they occur, covering important and emerging topics such as intersectionality, wellbeing, international migration, globalisation and corporate governance. Theoretically-rigorous and rich in pedagogy, this textbook will hone students' critical thinking skills, allowing them to confront higher level problems faced in HR and deal with complex real-world HR situations. A range of topical international case studies – ranging from iPhone factories in China to contemporary US politics – places HR issues in a comparative, global context. This is an essential textbook for upper-undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA students studying contemporary or critical issues in HRM. It can also be used as a supplementary text by those wanting to deepen their knowledge of HRM and by practitioners keen to understand how core HRM topics intersect with wider contemporary and global issues.

In today's global business environment, as firms operate cross nationally, it is imperative and important for the business manager to realize the different environments existing in various regions and countries - differences in culture, behavior, history and geography, in economics and demographics and language and religion. This well-written, engagingly elegant text focuses on managing businesses that operate across national boundaries. Throughout, the running theme is organizational behavior (OB) and human resource management (HRM). What the text tries to do is to tell the students of business management and the practicing managers in international organizations how to deal with the environments in different countries effectively. Professor Punnett suggests to the managers the ways to understand, adjust to, and manage cross-national variations. For, different environments prevalent in various countries have their profound impact on specific aspects of management - such as motivation, leader-ship, communications and negotiations. In this whole process of delineating the different environments for the manager, the text explores the link between culture, politics and other environmental factors and organizational behavior. Besides, it deals with human resource issues, including gender, race, and religions internationally. Finally, the ethical issues involved are carefully analyzed. This book will serve as an ideal supplementary text in OB and HR for MBA, and as a text in international business management courses. The book is replete with current examples and cases, enhancing its worth as an ideal text for students of management.

Human resource management (HRM) is the predominant apparatus for people management across the world. Since its inception, HRM has nevertheless been subjected to critical scrutiny. This work has produced a corpus of literature now referred to as ‘Critical HRM’. This book on Critical HRM traces the development of the critical scholarly tradition in people management. It analyzes, organizes and synthesizes the various perspectives, ideas and arguments that constitute this critical tradition. The book identifies the current status and future trends of Critical HRM, and explores its ethico-political role in contemporary organizations, especially in the context of widespread public concern about making business more ethical. Incorporating under-researched and emerging issues of people management, such as the Global South and Critical HRM, with more established themes of Critical HRM, this book introduces Critical HRM’s critique of mainstream HRM and its underpinning assumptions. It illustrates how interventions have the potential to transform organizational policies and practices of managing people at work. The book will be of interest to professionals, researchers, and academics focusing on critical issues in people management across the Global South and North.

This Multi Pack consists of Human Resource Management 4th ed (0273679112) with Penguin Business Dictionary (0140513779).

This collection of 52 current readings explores the important contemporary perspectives and issues in the field of human resources management - from an applied, rather than scholarly, orientation. It expands, updates, and restructures coverage to reflect the new and different issues that have surfaced in recent years, whilst continuing to explore the functional areas in depth.