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(Legge 2005 ; Marchington and Grugulis 2000 ). Broad policies are always open to the interpretations of managers, both general a ...

rationale to employment, envisaging it as a costly and purposeful human activity, serving some kind of desired end. Whether, of ...

and individual well-being. As the emphasis on stakeholders and contextual factors implies, the model was oVered more as an analy ...

forces’ on HR policy choices: the external environment (social, political, legal, and economic), the workforce, the organization ...

3.3 Goal Theories and Research in HRM .......................................................................................... ...

This means that single-factor explanations of HRM goals (such as, ‘employers simply seek to manage people in a way consistent wi ...

Purcell 2003 ). On the other hand, when aWrm has expensive investments in advanced technology, which requires highly skilled and ...

Beer et al. ( 1984 ) describe or, alternatively, in oVering their short-term, ‘market’ model with large bonuses for reaching key ...

1 The Economic Objectives of HRM The job forWrms in what economists call the ‘short run’ is to secure their economic viabi ...

across the board. To do so would ignore the impact of industry diVerences in productive technologies and customer attitudes on w ...

marginal adjustments to staYng levels or labor costs when conditions change— and ‘long-run agility’ (Dyer and Shafer 1999 ), a m ...

Table 3.2 Market characteristics, competitive dynamics, and HR strategy in services Service market type Knowledge content of ser ...

some of the best evidence available at this point. It shows thatWrms that match high-quality human capital to a strategy of high ...

control over an uncertain environment including threats to its power from work groups and trade unions. In situations where the ...

3.5 Conclusions ................................................................................................................ ...

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