Human Resource Management A Critical Text: A Critical Text

by John Storey

In this latest edition of Human Resource Management - A Critical Text, John Storey has brought together leading authorities in the field to provide critical coverage of contemporary and emerging issues in HRM. It builds on the seminal work first published in 1989. The new text contains fully revised and up-to-date chapters from the original contributors while also offering new chapters on electronic HRM, agility and scalability and international staffing. As a result, current debates about the nature and significance of HRM are developed and the volume once again offers the leading in-depth critical analysis of the field. The international team of expert contributors provides an authoritative, critical and original account of contemporary HRM. The book is ideal for advanced management students on a variety of courses.

312 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

John is Professor of Human Resource Management at The Open University Business School. He was Professor of Management at the University of Loughborough and Deputy Director of the Business School. Before that he was Principal Research Fellow at Warwick Business School where he lectured on the Warwick Executive MBA and was module leader for the HR course on the Consortium MBA.

He is an Elected Fellow of the British Academy of Management. He was Editor of the Human Resource Management Journal 1994-2000. He is Chairman of the Involvement & Participation Association (IPA). He currently serves on the Editorial Boards of the journal Leadership and the Human Resource Management Journal. He is General Editor of Blackwell's series on Management, Organizations and Business. He is an Associate of the Center for Global Strategic Human Resource Management, Rutgers University, USA and of the ESRC Skills and Knowledge Centre (SKOPE) at Oxford and Warwick University.

He is a member of the UK government's Leadership & Management Panel which advises Ministers in the Department of Business and the Department of Education. He is a non-executive director of the Land Command Personnel Management Board, and he is Chairman of the Executive Board of the IPA. He has consulted at board level for Waitrose, John Lewis, the MOD, Barclays Bank, and KPMG. He has been a Visiting Professor at the National Police Training College.