Strategic human resource management : a reader / edited by Christopher Mabey, Graeme Salaman, John Storey.

"In association with the Open University Business School."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Strategic human resource management : the theory of practice and the practice of theory / Christopher Mabey, Graeme Salaman and John Storey -- Morality of HRM / Karen Legge -- Strategy and the ethical management of human resources / Paul Miller -- Governing economic life / Peter Miller and Nikolas Rose -- Cult[ure] of the customer / Paul du Gay and Graeme Salaman -- Redefining the field of European human resource management : a battle between national mindsets and forces of business transition? / Paul R. Sparrow and Jean-Marie Hiltrop -- International comparisons of training policies / Charles Noble -- Impact of human resource management practices on turnover, productivity, and corporate financial performance / Mark A. Huselid -- Playing God? The performance of appraisal / Tim Newton and Patricia Findlay -- Performance-related pay / John Storey and Keith Sisson -- Human resources as strategic assets : an evolutionary resource-based theory / Frank Mueller -- Checking out service : evaluating excellence, HRM and TQM in retailing / Patrice Rosenthal, Stephen Hill and Riccardo Peccei -- Emerging flexible organization : perspectives from Silicon Valley / Homa Bahrami -- Managing through networks / E. Ferlie and A. Pettigrew -- Mutual gains enterprise / Thomas Kochan and Paul Osterman -- Human resource management, trade unions and industrial relations / David E. Guest -- It's a small world : managing human resources in small businesses / Nicolas Bacon ... [et al.] -- Managing for the next century - or the last? / Ray Jacques -- Critique and a proposed reformulation of strategic human resource management / Ken Kamoche -- Reform as routine / Nils Brunsson and Johan P. Olsen -- Knowledge-creating company / Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi.

Published as a course reader for the Open University course Strategic Human Resource Management (B824), this book brings together contributions from leading thinkers in contemporary management.

First published: 1998.