✍ Scribed by Alvaro Lopez-Cabrales (editor), Ramon Valle-Cabrera (editor)
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
This book contains a selection of theoretical and empirical studies that highlight a number of complexities and challenges for Human Resource Management (HRM) in organizations. It serves to illustrate the difficulty in explaining the role of human resources and the complexities implicit in the management of people working together, highlighting several challenges that HRM managers face today. Several chapters provide an accurate picture of relevant topics and issues, by putting together different approaches and levels of analysis that undoubtedly enrich one another. Contributions include theoretical and empirical analyses of how technologies impact on the future of work, employees well-being as a consequence of the application of high-performance work systems, the challenges of managing employees careers and employee diversity, and the issue of employees commitment, among other topics.
Table of Contents
1 Introduction: The HRM Function Revisited • Alvaro Lopez-Cabrales and Ramon Valle-Cabrera
2 Future of Work: How Technology Will Impact the Workplace and HR • Milan R. Wolffgramm, Stephan Corporaal, and Maarten J. van Riemsdijk
3 A Multilevel Analysis of the Influence of HPWS on Employee Well-Being and Efficacy: Strength of the HR Strategy and Leader-Member Exchange as Moderator Variables • Inmaculada Beltrán-Martín, Juan Carlos Bou-Llusar and Alejandro Salvador-Gómez
4 The MBA and Reported Career Success: A Study of the Differences Reported by Gender • Elizabeth Houldsworth, Richard Mcbain and Chris Brewster
5 A “chaordic” Organizational Structure to Achieve Organizational Agility • Mark Nijssen, Elaine Farndale and Jaap Paauwe
6 The Forgotten Workforce:Older Female Part-Time Workers’ Job Characteristics • Maeve O’Sullivan, Christine Cross and Jonathan Lavelle
7 The Middle Manager as Sensemaker: How HRM Can Build Sensemaking Capability • Sarah Kieran, Juliet MacMahon and Sarah MacCurtain
8 Managing the Future Workforce in a Sustainable Way: Exploring Paradoxical Tensions Associated with Flexible Work Practices that are intended to be Sustainable • Joost Bücker, Pascale Peters and Naufal El Aghdas
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