Strategic Human Resource Management: Building Research-based Practice

by Margaret Harris (Author), Michael West (Author), Michael West (Author), Carole Parkes (Author), Michael Butler (Author), Ann Davis (Author), Judy Scully (Author), Helen Shipton (Author), Pawan Budhwar (Author), Michael Butler (Author), Carole Parkes (Author), Margaret Harris (Author), Ann Davis (Author), Michael Butler (Author), Sam Argee (Author), Kathy Daniels (Author)

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  2008

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  Strategic Human Resource Management: Building Research-Based Practice is a challenging and engaging student-focused text written by a team of world-class researchers and experienced HRM tutors at Aston University. It is ideal for students taking a HRM or Strategic HRM module at postgraduate and upper-undergraduate level. Structured around contemporary and emerging issues this critical text is designed to encourage students to think analytically about Strategic HRM and builds real-world practice on the basis of solid research evidence. With a unique and thought-provoking range of contents that explores the links between Strategic HRM, Strategic Management and Organisational Behaviour, this text connects theory, research evidence and real-world practice.It also provides examples and case studies covering a variety of organisations, cultures and contexts, with access to the latest in leading-edge thinking. The text also includes integrated consideration of Strategic HRM in an international context, including coverage of emerging markets such as China and India. The Aston Centre for Human Resources (ACHR) was created at Aston Business School, Aston University, in February 2006. The mission of the Centre is both to inform and influence practice through conducting high quality, challenging research in order to extend the existing theoretical frameworks and to develop new and relevant conceptual models to represent and guide the changing realities facing businesses and the people they employ in the 21st century.