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Human resource management : rhetorics and realities / Karen Legge.

By:

Legge, Karen [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Management, work and organisationsPublisher: New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005Edition: Anniversary editionDescription: xviii, 430 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

1403936005
9781403936004

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

658.3 22

LOC classification:

HF5549 .L46128 2005

Online resources:

Contributor biographical information

Contents:

1. What is personnel management? -- 2. Styles of managing the employment relationship -- 3. What is human resource management? -- 4. HRM and 'strategic' integration with business policy? -- 5. HRM : towards the flexible firm? -- 6. HRM : from compliance to commitment? -- 7. HRM and quality : customer sovereignty in the enterprise culture? -- 8. HRM and 'new realism' in industrial relations? -- 9. HRM : modernist project or postmodern discourse? -- 10. Epilogue : the future of HRM?

Review: "This anniversary edition of Karen Legge's classic Human Resource Management contains the entire text of the first edition complete with a new, long introductory chapter; contextualising the original debate from today's perspective and bringing in recent themes and issues." "The book is particularly suitable for MBA students and advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of HRM. It will be valuable reading for anyone wishing to further understand the role of HRM in business."--BOOK JACKET.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	City Campus City Campus Main Collection	658.3 LEG (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A291938B

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This anniversary edition of Karen Legge's classic Human Resource Management contains the entire text of the first edition complete with a new, long introductory chapter; contextualising the original debate from today's perspective and bringing in recent themes and issues." "The book is particularly suitable for MBA students and advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of HRM. It will be valuable reading for anyone wishing to further understand the role of HRM in business."--BOOK JACKET.

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