Introduction to Human Resource Management
Fourth Edition
SAGE Journal Articles
Select SAGE journal articles are available to give you more insight into chapter topics. These are also an ideal resource to help support your literature reviews, dissertations and assignments.
- In keeping with the ethical perspective which finds the notion of ‘human resources’ problematic, this paper explores how a change from HRM to person management might prove a more sustainable model based on the realisation of mutual gains for both those persons who manage and those who are managed.
Fortier, M. and Albert, M.-N. (2015) From resource to human being: Towards person management, Sage Open, July-September, 1-13.
- This article reports on a study of the employment relationship in three medium-sized firms. In particular, it provides an interesting insight into the interaction between employment regulation, managerial prerogative and employee action as a result of their perceptions of the nature of the psychological contract.
Atkinson, C., Mallett, O. and Wapshott, R. (2014) You try to be a fair employer: Regulation and employment relationships in medium-sized firms, International Small Business Journal, 1-18.
- This research article finds that the adoption of socially responsible HRM (SRHRM) – practices that promote, support and reward the socially responsible behaviour of employees – can yield positive improvements in task performance and extra-role helping behaviour. These findings suggest an imperative for firms to invest in corporate social responsibility (CSR) directed towards employees as a means of both furthering their CSR agenda and also to positively impact on employee behaviour and organisational identification.
Shen, J. and Benson, J. (2014) When CSR is a social norm: How socially responsible human resource management affects employee work behavior, Journal of Management, 1-24.
- Drawing on a diverse literature from a range of disciplines, this integrative literature review provides an overview of the academic research on employee engagement. It identifies and explores four key approaches to defining and investigating employee engagement providing a useful resource for understanding and applying this important concept in HRM.
Shuck, B. (2011) Integrative literature review: Four emerging perspectives of employee engagement: An integrative literature review, Human Resource Development Review, 10 (1): 304-28.
- This article (summarised in Box 2.4) reports on research to examine the relationship between work organisation and employee experience in a number of call centres. The authors challenge the optimistic accounts of positive worker experience in quality-oriented workplaces, particularly in respect of worker control and discretion.
Taylor, P., Mulvey, G., Hyman, J. and Bain, P. (2002) Work organization, control and the experience of work in call centres, Work, Employment and Society, 16 (1): 133-50 .