Beschreibung:
Contents: 1. Theories used in employment relations and human resource management / Keith Townsend, Aoife M. McDermott, Kenneth Cafferkey and Tony Dundon -- 2. Marxism at work / Roger Seifert -- 3. Neo-pluralism in contemporary employment relations and HRM: The case for workplace and academic dialogue / Peter Ackers -- 4. Applying scientific management to modern HRM and ER / Niall Cullinane and Jean Cushen -- 5. Cracking labour process theory in employment relations and HRM / Shiona Chillas and Alina Baluch -- 6. The legacy of the human relations school: Looking back and moving forward / Sarah Jenkins -- 7. The theory of high-performance work systems / Peter Boxall and Meng-Long Huo -- 8. Systems theory: Forgotten legacy and future prospects / Brian Harney -- 9. Evolutionary psychological theory and human resource management / Andrew Timming -- 10. Personnel economics: Managing human resources through performance-related pay / Victoria Wass -- 11. Advances in labour regulation theory / Peter Waring and Mark Bray -- 12. Institutional theory, business systems and employment relations / Geoffrey Wood and Matthew Allen -- 13. Varieties of capitalism / Glenn Morgan and Heike Doering -- 14. Human resource management and paradox theory / Anne Keegan, Julia Brandl and Ina Aust -- 15. Revisiting human capital theory: Progress and prospects / Jonathan Winterton and Kenneth Cafferkey -- 16. Feminist theory and employment relations / Anne-Marie Greene -- 17. Trust, distrust and human resource management / Neve Iseava, Colin Hughes and Mark Saunders -- 18. Social exchange theory, employment relations and human resource management / Christine Cross and Tony Dundon -- 19. Using role theory to understand and solve employment relations and human resources problems / Qian Yi Lee, Keith Townsend, Ashlea Troth and Rebecca Loudoun -- 20. Fairness in the workplace: Organisational justice and the employment relationship / Melinda Laundon, Paula McDonald and Abby Cathcart -- 21. Ability, motivation, and opportunity theory: A formula for employee performance? / Ashlea Kellner, Kenneth Cafferkey and Keith Townsend -- 22. The resource-based view approach and HRM / Keith Whitfield -- 23. LMX and HRM: A multi-level review of how LMX is used to explain employment relationships / Anna Bos-Nehles and Mieke Audenaert -- 24. Social mobilisation theory in HR and employment relations / Lorraine Ryan, Caroline Murphy and Daniel Troy -- Index.
"This Elgar Introduction provides an overview of some of the key theories that inform human resource management and employment relations as a field of study. Leading scholars in the field explore theories in the context of contemporary debates concerning policies that affect and regulate work and the management of employment, as well as the activities and experiences of actors within the employment relationship. The book is divided into three sections to capture different theoretical lenses used to reflect on HRM and ER concerns about work: systems and historical development; institutions; and people and processes. Expert contributors have drawn on extensive research experience to present a contemporary understanding of a range of theories, how they evolved, and how they might be used in the future. Essential reading for HRM, ER and management scholars and research students, this book challenges readers to reassess their thinking about the significance of theory in research and practice"--