Oxford Handbook of Human Resource Management

adopter of Taylor’s credo of scientiWc management and, more so than in England, France, and Germany, Japanese employers strove t ...

management are recapitulated in some such fashion as we have attempted, the result is bound to be an impressive sum.’ Stated ano ...

These events had both positive and negative repercussions on the HRM function (Jacoby 2003 ). On the positive side, the rapid sp ...

Likewise, the mushroom growth in new war-related production plants and hiring of inexperienced workers created a huge need for t ...

journal,Personnel Psychology. According to Brown and Myers ( 1956 : 89 ) coming out of human relations research was ‘a pervasive ...

A similar pattern developed in Japan after the Second World War. Japan developed a ‘dual’ industrial sector with giant national ...

American approach to HRM was slowly taking hold in Europe due to the substantial transfer of management methods to Europe initia ...

and management). According to a curriculum survey (Estey 1960 ), the four core courses in these industrial relations programs we ...

divorce of IR and HRM was a divorce between labor economists and scholars from management and the behavioral sciences. Up to the ...

come from a published lecture given several years earlier by economist E. Wight Bakke entitled ‘The Human Resources Function’ ( ...

the 1960 s, per the comment of Dunnette and Bass ( 1963 ) that ‘many of the leading schools of business and industrial administr ...

In one of the earliest contributions, for example, Devanna et al. ( 1982 : 11 ) say of the traditional personnel function, ‘The ...

in the post- 1960 s period, including legislation regulating discrimination and equal opportunity, pensions, treatment of disabl ...

that explain the choice of employment systems acrossWrms (Begin 1991 ; Marsden 1999 ) and the ‘make versus buy’ choice with resp ...

HRM faced a stark choice of ‘transform or die.’ A number of articles, for example, appeared with titles such as ‘Repositioning t ...

the term ‘HRM’ started to appear in the mid- 1980 s (e.g. Hendry and Pettigrew 1986 ; Guest 1987 ) in journal articles. A partic ...

it must be deWned in a broad, generic, and value-free way. Representative is the statement by Boxall and Purcell ( 2003 : 1 ) th ...

continue to practice people management in a largely tactical, administrative, and cost-focused manner. With regard to academic r ...

( 2003 ).Strategy and Human Resource Management. London: Palgrave Macmillan. Brewster,C.( 1995 ). ‘Towards a European Model of H ...

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