Explaining the performance of human resource management
- Cambridge University Press, New Delhi 2010
- xvii, 342
Machine generated contents note: 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.