Human Resource Strategy: Towards a General Theory of Human Resource Management

by Shaun Tyson

This new text successfully demonstrates the links between human resource management and business strategy. It begins with an analysis of the literature on HRM and strategy and goes on to discuss how new models of HRM are created. The book seeks to explain the fit' between HR strategy and business strategyby describing how different models of HRM are developed to sustain and advance business objectives. A description is given of each of the main contributions through which HRM can add value, together with examples from companies of all sizes and in many different industries. The book ends with a proposed theory of HRM based on the Frameworks it has described.

211 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995