Strategic Human Resource Management

The most thoroughly integrated exploration of the link between corporate strategy and HR strategy in textbook format.

A guide to managing human resources strategically, this book provides a holistic overview of the strategic HRM territory, explaining how key HR topics can be thought about strategically. It critically examines strategic practice in ten key HR disciplines and the complexities surrounding their strategic implementation.

This key textbook will become core reading for students studying a module on Human Resource Strategy at upper level Uundergraduate, MBA and Masters level.  The author team have proved successful with students and academics alike with their market leading Research Methods for Business Students and, more recently, Employee Relations.

As people and their capabilities are core to an organisations' competitive advantage, the planning and implementing of strategies including the human resource  becomes a focus of all managers in a business.  This new text successfully integrates HR strategy with the overall business strategy, examining both how the HR function contributes to, and is affected by that strategy.

A true teaching and learning resource, the book combines cutting edge coverage of issues such as performance management and measurement, strategic reward systems, the learning organisation and managing knowledge for strategic advantage, with a wealth of examples, self-assessment exercises and encouragement to critique.