Strategy and Human Resource Management is concerned with examining how
HR strategy impacts on an organisation's chances of survival and its
relative success, and with understanding how it varies across important
organisational, industry and societal contexts. It takes an analytical
approach, which examines and explains what managers do and why they do
it before offering any sort of prescription for what the authors think
they should do. This approach is grounded in research but is brought to
life with examples, cases and vignettes to offer a practice-orientated
analysis of the subject. As well as explaining important general
principles in strategic HRM, critical features of the different contexts
in which they are applied are examined.
For this fifth edition, there is increased coverage of contemporary
topics, including capital markets and increasing financialisation,
Industry 4.0, the shaping of employee voice under different varieties of
capitalism and the effects of austerity. Strategy and Human Resource
Management retains, however, the classic sources that are fundamental
to the subject while also including important theoretical advances and
the best new studies of strategies in the world of work and people.