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.
- This paper provides evidence to suggest that investment in human resource management in SMEs positively enhances sustained competitive advantage on a range of metrics including profitability and innovation, as well as leading to positive employment outcomes such as lowered labour turnover.
Sheehan, M. (2014) Human resource management and performance: Evidence from small and medium-sized firms, International Small Business Journal, 32 (5): 545–570.
- Drawing on the perspectives of both employees and managers, this research article explores the relationship between HR practices and capabilities and organisational performance. It both helps to understand the HR issues specific to small firms but also provides a backdrop to subsequent discussions of the relationship between HR and performance.
Verreynne, M.-L., Parker, P. and Wilson, M. (2011) Employment systems in small firms: A multilevel analysis, International Small Business Journal, 31 (4): 405–31.
- This article examines how HR managers interpret the role of business partners and internal consultants and assesses the extent to which this results in greater self-esteem and organisational status and contributes towards identity as a member of a unitary HR profession.
Wright, C. (2008) Reinventing human resource management: Business partners, internal consultants and the limits to professionalization, Human Relations, 61: 1063–86.
- The following article presents research evidence on the trend within Australian organisations to devolve people management activities to line management and the differing views of HR and line managers about the extent to which they consider it likely to yield positive results.
Kulik, C. T. and Bainbridge, H. T. J. (2006) HR and the line: The distribution of HR activities in Australian organisations, Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, 44 (2): 240–56 .