Critical Issues in Human Resource Management will enable all HR
students to take a critical approach to HR issues. Outlining the
influences and shapers of HR strategy including ethics, managing in
different national contexts, employment relations, politics, governance
and finance, this book provides students with a full understanding of
the complexities of HRM strategy and what the implications of these are.
There is also crucial discussion of critical issues in the processes and
practice of HRM including the dilemmas of onshoring and offshoring,
gender equality, challenging institutional racism and disability
discrimination in the modern workplace to enable readers to think deeply
and critically about these issues.
Critical Issues in Human Resource Management also includes
discussion of the application of HRM in different sectors such as
manufacturing, the public sector, the private sector and not-for-profit
organizations. This will enable HR students to examine HR practices in
specific industries and to think about how issues might be dealt with
differently in different sectors, rather than assuming that best
practice is universal. Online resources include a lecturer guide with
additional seminar activities and discussion topics, powerpoint slides
and annotated weblinks for students to enable them to develop an astute,
nuanced and critical approach to human resource management
