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Course Texts (12 items)
There is no one textbook that fully and adequately covers the course content. The following are, however, books which will prove useful throughout the course and could be purchased, although the library has electronic access to the latest edition of Redman and Wilkinson and to Boxall, Purcell and Wright. The library also has copies of the last two editions of the Boxall and Purcell book (which are quite similar): Strategy and human resource management - Peter F. Boxall, John Purcell, 2016 Book | Essential | especially for the early part of the course on strategy The Oxford handbook of human resource management - Peter F. Boxall, John Purcell, Patrick Wright, 2008 Book | Essential Contemporary human resource management: text and cases - Adrian Wilkinson, Tom Redman, Dawson Books, 2013 Book | Essential
Students should also consult the relevant chapters and sections of the following texts (or their earlier editions), which are available from the university libraries: Human resource management: a contemporary approach - 2014 Book | Essential Human resource management: theory and practice - John Bratton, Jeffrey Gold, 2017 Book | Essential Human resource management: rhetorics and realities - Karen Legge, 2005 Book | Essential The realities of human resource management: managing the employment relationship Keith Sisson, John Storey, 2000 Book | Essential Human resource management: a critical text - John Storey, c2007 Book | Essential Human resource management - Derek Torrington, Laura Hall, Stephen Taylor, 2005
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Employment relations in the shadow of recession: findings from the 2011 Workplace Employment Relations Study - Brigid van Wanrooy, 2013 Book
The 2001 Workplace Employment Relations Study: First Findings - fourth edition July 2014 - bis-14-1008-WERS-first-findings-report-fourth-edition-july-2014.pdf Document
SESSION 1 - HRM: origins, key concepts and models
(9 items)
Key Reading (1 items) Human resource management: theory & practice - John Bratton, Jeffrey Gold, 2017 Book | Essential | See: Chapter 1, available via Online Resource button.
Further Reading (8 items) Strategy and human resource management - Peter F. Boxall, John Purcell, 2016 Book | Further | See: Chapter 1 Human resource management: rhetorics and realities - Karen Legge, 2005 Book | Further | See: Chapter 3 Contemporary human resource management: text and cases - Adrian Wilkinson, Tom Redman, Dawson Books, 2013 Book | Further | See: chapter 1 Human resource management: a critical text - John Storey, c2007 Book | Further | See: Chapters 1 & 2 Work organisations: a critical introduction - Paul Thompson, David McHugh, Dawson Books, c2002 Book | Further | See: Chapter 11 Soft and Hard Models of Human Resource Management: A Reappraisal - Catherine Truss, Lynda Gratton, Veronica Hope-Hailey, Patrick McGovern, Philip Stiles, 1997-01 Article | Further Organising and managing work: organisational, managerial and strategic behaviour in theory and practice - Tony J. Watson, 2006 Book | Further
See also introductory/ 'what is HRM' type chapters from the other above course texts (with the exception of Van Wanrooy et al., 2013) 2/12
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SESSION 2 - HRM: Strategy 1 – Key theoretical approaches (6 items) Key Reading (1 items) Strategy and human resource management - Peter F. Boxall, John Purcell, 2016 Book | Essential | See: Chapter 3, pp. 63-96, available via Online Resource button.
Further Reading (5 items) Human resource management: theory and practice - John Bratton, Jeffrey Gold, 2017 Book | Further | See: Chapter 2 The Oxford handbook of human resource management - Peter F. Boxall, John Purcell, Patrick Wright, 2008 Book | Further | See: Chapter 5 (By Allen and Wright) and Chapter 19 (by Kepes and Delery) Human resource management: rhetorics and realities - Karen Legge, 2005 Book | Further | See: Chapter 4 Human resource management: a critical text - John Storey, c2007 Book | Further | See: Chapter 4
See also chapters on 'strategic HRM' or similar from the other above course texts (with the exception of Van Wanrooy et al., 2013)
SESSION 3 - HRM: Strategy 2 - HR and organisational success (11 items) Key Readings (3 items) Reassessing the employment relationship - Paul Blyton, Edmund Heery, Peter Turnbull, 2011 Book | Essential | See: Sengupta, S. and Whitfield, K. (2011) Ask not what HRM can do for performance but what HRM has done to performance, available via Online Resource button. HRM and Performance: Achievements, Methodological Issues and Prospects - Jaap Paauwe, 2009-01 Article | Essential Human resource management and performance: still searching for some answers - David E. Guest, 2011-01 Article | Essential
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Further Readings (8 items) Commonalities and contradictions in HRM and performance research - Paul Boselie, Graham Dietz, Corine Boon, 2005-07 Article | Further Understanding HRM-Firm Performance Linkages: The Role of the "Strength" of the HRM System - David E. Bowen and Cheri Ostroff, 2004 Article | Further Strategy and human resource management - Peter F. Boxall, John Purcell, 2016 Book | Further | See: Chapter 7 & 8 The Oxford handbook of human resource management - Peter F. Boxall, John Purcell, Patrick Wright, 2008 Book | Further | See: Chapter 26 Human resource management: theory and practice - John Bratton, Jeffrey Gold, 2017 Book | Further | See: Chapter 3 HRM-performance research: under-theorized and lacking explanatory power - Steve Fleetwood, Anthony Hesketh, 2006-12 Article | Further Contemporary human resource management: text and cases - Adrian Wilkinson, Tom Redman, Dawson Books, 2013 Book | Further | See: Chapter 2 Human resource management: rhetorics and realities - Karen Legge, 2005 Book | Further | See: Chapters 3&4
(3 Debate items) SESSION 4: HRM: The Diversity
A full reading list will be provided with the lecture but some further readings to get started with include:
Further reading (3 items) The dynamics of managing diversity: a critical approach - Gill Kirton, Anne Marie Greene, ScienceDirect (Online service), c2010 Book | Further Contemporary human resource management: text and cases - Adrian Wilkinson, Tom Redman, Dawson Books, 2013 Book | Further | See: Chapter 14 (by Cassell) Human resource management - Derek Torrington, 2011 Book | Further | See: Chapter 19. Copies of the 6th edition, also, available in the Library.
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SESSION 5: HRM: A Practitioner View
This session is dedicated to gaining a practitioner’s view of HRM.
SESSION 6:
HRM: Some debates and controversies(8 items)
Key Readings (4 items) Strategy and human resource management - Peter F. Boxall, John Purcell, Patrick Wright, 2011 Book | Essential | See: Chapter 8 (By Thompson and Harley) Human resource management: rhetorics and realities - Karen Legge, 2005 Book | Essential | See: Especially chapters 1-3, 5 and 6 The trouble with HRM - Paul Thompson, 2011-11 Article | Essential The changing face of HRM: in search of balance - Helen Francis, Anne Keegan, 2006-07 Article | Essential
Further readings (4 items) Human Resource Management and the American Dream - David E. Guest, 1990-07 Article | Further The HR department's role in organisational performance - Veronica Hope Hailey, Elaine Farndale, Catherine Truss, 2005-07 Article | Further The Business Partner Balancing Act: An analysis of alternative employee advocacy practices in the modern HR function | Cornell HR Review - Matt Olson, 2014-10-31 Article | Further Disconnected Capitalism: Or Why Employers Can't Keep Their Side of the Bargain - Paul Thompson, 2003-6-1 Article | Further
items) SESSION 7: Psychological contracts (10 at work
Key readings (4 items) Understanding psychological contracts at work: a critical evaluation of theory and research - Neil Conway, Rob B. Briner, Oxford University Press, 2005 Book | Essential | See: Chapter 2. New Hire Perceptions of Their Own and Their Employer's Obligations: A Study of Psychological Contracts - Denise M. Rousseau, 1990 Article | Essential
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The Psychology of the Employment Relationship: An Analysis Based on the Psychological Contract - David E. Guest, 2004-10 Article | Essential The Content of the Psychological Contract - Peter Herriot, W. E. G. Manning, Jennifer M. Kidd, 1997-06 Article | Essential
Further readings (6 items) Understanding psychological contracts at work: a critical evaluation of theory and research - Neil Conway, Rob B. Briner, Oxford University Press, 2005 Book | Further | See: Chapters 1-5 Communicating the psychological contract: an employer perspective - David E. Guest, Neil Conway, 2002-04 Article | Further When Employees Feel Betrayed: A Model of How Psychological Contract Violation Develops - Elizabeth Wolfe Morrison, Sandra L. Robinson, 1997 Article | Further Violating the psychological contract: Not the exception but the norm - Sandra L. Robinson, Denise M. Rousseau, 1994-05 Article | Further Changing Obligations and the Psychological Contract: A Longitudinal Study - Sandra L. Robinson, Matthew S. Kraatz, Denise M. Rousseau, 1994 Article | Further Psychological contracts in organizations: understanding written and unwritten agreements - Denise M. Rousseau, c1995 Book | Further
items) SESSION 8: Organisation change and the people(6factor
Key readings (2 items) Organisational behaviour and analysis: an integrated approach - Derek Rollinson, Dawson Books, 2005 Book | Essential | See: Chapter 21. Facilitating new deals - Peter Herriot, Carole Pemberton, 1997-01 Article | Essential
Further readings (4 items) Managing change: a strategic approach to organisational dynamics - Bernard Burnes,
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MyiLibrary, c2009 Book | Further | See: Chapters 8, 9 and 5 (pp. 220-231) Changing Obligations and the Psychological Contract: A Longitudinal Study - Sandra L. Robinson, Matthew S. Kraatz, Denise M. Rousseau, 1994 Article | Further Performance management and the psychological contract - Philip Stiles, Lynda Gratton, Catherine Truss, Veronica Hope-Hailey, Patrick McGovern, 1997-01 Article | Further Employment relations in the shadow of recession: findings from the 2011 Workplace Employment Relations Study - Brigid van Wanrooy, 2013 Book | Further | See: Chapter 4.
(8 items) SESSION 9 Work and Well Being 1: Work Life Balance
Key readings (4 items) Work less, live more? - 2008 Book | Essential | See: Eikhof, D. R., Haunschild, A. and Warhurst, C. (2008) Out of Balance or Just Out of Bounds? Mapping the Relationship Between Work and Life, pp. 1-21, available via Online Resource button. Introduction: What work? What life? What balance? - Doris Ruth Eikhof, Chris Warhurst, Axel Haunschild, 2007-07-13 Article | Essential Dilute to taste? The impact of the working time regulations in the hospitality industry Scott A. Hurrell, 2005-10 Article | Essential Contemporary human resource management: text and cases - Adrian Wilkinson, Tom Redman, Dawson Books, 2013 Book | Essential | See: Chapter 15 (By Kirton).
Further readings (4 items) Reassessing the employment relationship - Paul Blyton, Edmund Heery, Peter Turnbull, 2011 Book | Further Willing slaves: how the overwork culture is ruling our lives - Madeleine Bunting, 2005 Book | Further The realities of work: experiencing work and employment in contemporary society - Mike Noon, Paul Blyton, Kevin Morrell, c2013 Book | Further | See: Chapters 4 and 13. (see also earlier editions edited by Noon and Blyton with the 2002 edition available as an e-book).
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Employment relations in the shadow of recession: findings from the 2011 Workplace Employment Relations Study - Brigid van Wanrooy, 2013 Book | Further | See: Chapter 7.
SESSION 10 : Stress at Work (6 items)
A full reading list will be provided with the lecture but some further readings to get started with include:
Further readings (6 items) Human resource management: theory & practice - John Bratton, Jeffrey Gold, c2012 Book | Further | See: Chapter 14 (pp; 475-481). Introduction to work and organizational psychology: a European perspective - Nik Chmiel, 2000 Book | Further | See: Chapter 7 and part 3 Tackling workplace stress: a guide for safety reps - Labour Research Dept, 2000 Book | Further Tackling bullying and harassment at work: a trade unionist's guide - Jeremy Pinel, Labour Research Dept, 2005 Book | Further Tackling stress at work: a trade unionist's guide - Labour Research Dept, 2002 Book | Further Work organisations: a critical introduction - Paul Thompson, David McHugh, Dawson Books, c2002 Book | Further | See: Chapter 21.
(5 items) SESSION 11 Recruitment and Selection
A full reading list will be provided with the lecture but some further readings to get started with include:
Key readings (1 items) Contemporary human resource management: text and cases - Adrian Wilkinson, Tom Redman, Dawson Books, 2013 Book | Essential | See: Chapters 2 & 3.
Further readings (4 items) Human resource management: theory & practice - John Bratton, Jeffrey Gold, c2012 Book | Further | See: Chapter 7.
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Human resource management: a critical text - John Storey, Open University. Business school, 2001 Book | Further | See: Chapter 8. Please note that this is 2nd ed. The 3rd edition is, also, in-stock. The strategic managing of human resources - John W. Leopold, Lynette Harris, Tony J. Watson, 2005 Book | Further Human resource management - Derek Torrington, 2011 Book | Further | See: Chapters 11 and 12. Copies of the previous editions are in-stock the Library.
SESSION 12
(3 items) Job Evaluation
A full reading list will be provided with the lecture but some further readings to get started with include:
Further readings (3 items) Human resource management: theory & practice - John Bratton, Jeffrey Gold, c2012 Book | Further | See: Chapter 11. Recruiting, retaining and releasing people: managing redeployment, return, retirement and redundancy - Adrian Mackay, ScienceDirect (Online service), 2007 Book | Further | See: Chapter 5. Human resource management - Derek Torrington, 2011 Book | Further | See: Chapter 32.
SESSION 13 Assignment Briefing
This session is dedicated to discussing the coursework assignment
SESSION 14
(5 items) Performance Appraisal
A full reading list will be provided with the lecture but some further readings to get started with include:
Key readings (2 items) Contemporary human resource management: text and cases - Adrian Wilkinson, Tom Redman, 2013 Book | Essential | See: Chapter 7 (by Redman). Dilemmas of Appraisal - Fiona Wilson, 2002-12 Article | Essential
Further readings (3 items) 9/12
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Human resource management: theory & practice - John Bratton, Jeffrey Gold, c2012 Book | Further | See: Chapter 8. The strategic managing of human resources - John W. Leopold, Lynette Harris, Tony J. Watson, 2005 Book | Further | See: Chapter 7. Human resource management - Derek Torrington, 2011 Book | Further | See: Part 4.
(3 Systems items) SESSION 15 Payment
A full reading list will be provided with the lecture but some further readings to get started with include:
Key reading (1 items) Contemporary human resource management: text and cases - Adrian Wilkinson, Tom Redman, Dawson Books, 2013 Book | Essential | See: Chapter 6.
Further reading (2 items) Human resource management: theory & practice - John Bratton, Jeffrey Gold, c2012 Book | Further | See: Chapter 11. Human resource management - Derek Torrington, 2011 Book | Further | See: Part 7.
SESSION 16/17 Forms and models of consultation and bargaining(10 1/2 items)
Key readings (3 items) Employee communications and consultation - ACAS, 2014 Document | Essential Employee Relations - John Gennard, Graham Judge, January 1, 2005 Book | Essential | See: Chapter 9, pp. 238-271, available via Online Resource button. The Oxford handbook of participation in organizations - Adrian Wilkinson, 2010 Book | Essential | See: Wilkinson, A. Gollan, P. J. Marchington, M. and Lewin, D. (2010) Conceptualizing Employee Participation in Organisations. [This chapter will also direct you to other useful chapters.]
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Further reading (7 items) The Oxford handbook of human resource management - Peter F. Boxall, John Purcell, Patrick Wright, 2008 Book | Further | See: Chapter 12 (by Marchington) The Oxford handbook of participation in organizations - Adrian Wilkinson, 2010 Book | Further | See: Wilkinson, A. Gollan, P. J. Marchington, M. and Lewin, D. (2010) Conceptualizing Employee Participation in Organisations [as above – section on ‘Forms of participation in practice’] Finding a voice at work?: new perspectives on employment relations - 2015 Book | Further | See: Especially Chapters 1, 2 and 7. Negotiations and change: from the workplace to society - Thomas A. Kochan, David B. Lipsky, c2003 Book | Essential Statutory regulation and employment relations: the impact of statutory trade union recognition - Sian Moore, Sonia McKay, Sarah Veale, 2013 Book | Further Contemporary human resource management: text and cases - Adrian Wilkinson, Tom Redman, Dawson Books, 2013 Book | Further | See: Chapter 7 (by Dundon and Wilkinson). Employment relations in the shadow of recession: findings from the 2011 Workplace Employment Relations Study - Brigid van Wanrooy, 2013 Book | Further | See: Chapter 4.
items) SESSION 18 When Consultation and bargaining(5fail …
Key readings (4 items) Managing conflict at work - ACAS Document | Essential Conciliation Explained - ACAS, 2015 Document | Essential Mediation: an approach to resolving workplace issues - CIPD, ACAS, 2013 Document | Essential Employment relations in the shadow of recession: findings from the 2011 Workplace Employment Relations Study - Brigid van Wanrooy, 2013 Book | Essential | See: Chapter 8.
Further reading (1 items) 11/12
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Finding a voice at work?: new perspectives on employment relations - 2015 Book | Further | See: Chapter 2 (By Heery).
items) SESSION 19 Grievance (1 handling
This session is primarily designed to investigate an HR practitioner’s experiences of hadnlign grievances and conflict situations in the workplace.
Key reading (1 items) Discipline and grievances at work: The Acas guide - ACAS Document | Essential
SESSION 20 Revision Sessions
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