Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. The framing of human resource management

Field of human resource management

Human resources management : a historical perspective

Models of strategic human resource management

The employment relationship

The regulative framework for HRM

The evolution of HR strategy : adaptations to increasing global complexity

Strong situations and firm performance : a proposed re-conceptualization of the role of the HR function

International and comparative human resource management

Part II. Fundamentals of human resource management

Recruitment and selection

Training and development in organizations

Management and leadership development

Understanding performance management and appraisal : Supervisory and employee perspective

Compensation

HRM and equal opportunities

Involvement and participation

Extending the reach of job design theory : going beyond the job characteristics model

Occupational health and safety in the modern world of work

Industrial relations and collective bargaining

Discipline and grievance

Downsizing and redundancy

Part III. Contemporary issues

Strategic human resources management : where do we go from here?

The employee experience of work

Human resource management in developing countries

HRM and national economic performance

Human resource management and the resource based view

Complexity-based agile enterprises : putting self-organizing emergence to work

Human resource management across organizational boundaries

Ethics and HRM

Working time and work-life balance

Part IV. Sectoral perspectives

Human resource management in the service sector

HRM in small firms : respecting and regulating informality

HRM in multinational companies

Human resource management in the public sector