Handbook of qualitative research methods on human resource management : innovative techniques

✍ Scribed by Lewin, David; Loudoun, Rebecca; Townsend, Keith

Publisher: Edward Elgar
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 283
Series: Handbooks of research methods in management.
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This Handbook explores the opportunities and challenges of new technologies for innovating data collection and data analysis in the context of human resource management. Written by some of the world's leading researchers in their field, it comprehensively explores modern qualitative research methods from good project design, to innovations in data sources and data collection methods and, finally, to best-practice in data analysis.

✦ Table of Contents

List of figures --
List of tables and boxes --
About the editors --
List of contributors --
1. Qualitative research in HRM : innovation over stagnation / Keith Townsend, Rebecca Loudoun and David Lewin --
Part I. Designing qualitative projects --
2. The role of qualitative methods in mixed methods designs / Roslyn Cameron --
3. Anchoring qualitative methods for longitudinal studies / Rebecca Loudoun and Keith Townsend --
4. Autoethnography : a novel way to study HRM / Sally Sambrook --
Part II. Innovations in data sources --
5. Using legal research methods in human resource management research / Richard Johnstone --
6. The use of news media as a data source in HRM research : exploring society's perceptions / Sheryl Ramsay, Sara Branch and Jacqueline Ewart --
7. Netnographical methods and the challenge of researching hidden and secretive employee social media practices / James Richards --
8. Doing historical research in human resource management : with some reflections on an academic career / Peter Ackers --
9. Thinking about philosophical methods in human resources / Kerrie L. Unsworth and Matthew T. Hardin --
Part III. Innovations in data collection methods --
10. An experiment with 'the miracle question' : an innovative data collection technique in HR research / Keith Townsend --
11. Using photo-elicitation to understand experiences of work-life balance / Catherine Cassell, Fatima Malik and Laura S. Radcliffe --
12. Using qualitative repertory grid interviews to gather shared perspectives in a sequential mixed methods research design / Céline Rojon, Mark N.K. Saunders and Almuth Mcdowall --
13. Free verbal associations : measuring what people think about employee participation / Werner Nienhüser --
14. Using qualitative diaries to uncover the complexities of daily experiences / Laura S. Radcliffe --
15. Autoethnographic vignettes in HRM / Mark Learmonth and Michael Humphreys --
Part IV. Innovative data analysis --
16. Computer-supported qualitative research / Julie Cogin and Ju Li Ng --
17. Cross-cultural HRM research : the potential of causal cognitive mapping / Gail Clarkson --
18. Deriving behavioural role descriptions from the perspectives of job-holders : an illustrative example / Richard Winter --
Index.

✦ Subjects

Personnel management -- Research -- Methodology

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