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Author Fleetwood, Steve, 1955-

Title Explaining the performance of human resource management / Steve Fleetwood, Anthony Hesketh.

Publication Info. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 342 pages)
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Physical Medium polychrome
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-337) and index.
Contents Part I. HRM and Organisational Performance Today: 1. Crisis? What crisis?; 2. Tracking the emergence of the human resource management-performance link paradigm -- Part II. Meta-Theorising the HRM-P Link: 3. The state of contemporary research on the HRM-performance link: a technical analysis; 4. Scientism: the meta-theory underlying empirical research on the HRM-P link; 5. Prediction, explanation and theory; 6. Critical realism: a meta-theory for analyzing HRM and performance -- Part III. Reflexive Performance: 7. Putting critical realism to work.
Summary "Human resource departments increasingly use the statistical analysis of performance indicators as a way of demonstrating their contribution to organisational performance. In this book, Steve Fleetwood and Anthony Hesketh take issue with this 'scientific' approach by arguing that its preoccupation with statistical analysis is misplaced because it fails to take account of the complexities of organisations and the full range of issues that influence individual performance. The book is split into three parts. Part I deconstructs research into the alleged link between people and business performance by showing that it cannot explain the associations it alleges. Part II attributes these shortcomings to the importation of spurious 'scientific' methods, before going on to suggest more appropriate methods that might be used in future. Finally, Part III explores how HR executives and professionals understand their work and shows how a critical realist stance adds value to this understanding through enhanced explanation"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Personnel management.
Personnel management.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Hesketh, Anthony.
Other Form: Print version: Fleetwood, Steve, 1955- Explaining the performance of human resource management. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010 9780521875998 (DLC) 2010008748 (OCoLC)535491224
ISBN 9780511789472 (electronic book)
0511789475 (electronic book)
9780511781100 (electronic book)
0511781105 (electronic book)
9780521875998
0521875994
Standard No. 9786612725036