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Informationen zum Autor Steve Fleetwood is Professor of Employment Relations and HRM in Bristol Business School! University of the West of England! Bristol. His research focuses on philosophy of science and methodology as it is applied in social science! especially in organization and management studies and economics. He has written extensively on critical realism. Anthony Hesketh is Senior Lecture at Lancaster University Management School. His research focuses on capturing the impact of people and strategy on organizational performance. Klappentext This book challenges the widely held view that we can scientifically measure the link between human resource management and organizational performance. Zusammenfassung Human resource departments increasingly use the statistical analysis of performance indicators as a way of demonstrating their contribution to organizational performance. This book challenges this 'scientific' approach by arguing that it fails to take account of the complexities of organizations and the full range of issues that influence individual performance. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Preface; Part I. HRM and Organisational Performance Today: 1. Crisis? What crisis?; 2. Tracking the emergence of the human resource management-performance link paradigm; Part II. Meta-Theorising the HRM-P Link: 3. The state of contemporary research on the HRM-performance link: a technical analysis; 4. Scientism: the meta-theory underlying empirical research on the HRM-P link; 5. Prediction, explanation and theory; 6. Critical realism: a meta-theory for analyzing HRM and performance; Part III. Reflexive Performance: 7. Putting critical realism to work; Index.
