Strategic Human Resource Management: Corporate Rhetoric and Human Reality

by Lynda Gratton, Veronica Hope-Hailey, Philip Stiles, Catherine Truss

Overview

Life is tough in organizations, both for managers and the managed. Based on close collaboration with a number of high profile organizations such as BT, Citibank, Hewlett Packard, and Kraft Jacobs, this book sheds light on the organizational responses to large scale changes and details the changing demands made of employees in the process. It goes beyond fashionable management rhetoric to uncover the reality of human resource management.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198782049
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	07/08/1999
Pages:	260
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.80(d)
Lexile:	1430L (what's this?)

About the Author

All four authors worked together on this project at the London Business School. The team has now dispersed to other leading UK business schools.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction2. Soft and Hard Models of Human Resource Management3. Performaance Management in Fast-changing Environments4. The Rhetoric and Reality of ‘New Careers'5. Managing Culture6. Contextual Diversity for the role and Practice of HR7. HRM policies and Management Practices8. Transformation at the Leading Edge9. People Processes as a Source of Competitive Advantage10. The Emerging Themes