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.
- The discussion presented in this article provides an interesting backdrop against which this chapter can be understood, not least in respect of the relationship between HRM and employment relations. In particular, Boxall discusses the different emphases of research in these fields in order to suggest a greater focus on the nature of the employment relationship, both individually and collective, to shape HR practice that is both sustainable and mutually beneficial.
Boxall, P. (2014) The future of employment relations from the perspective of human resource management, Journal of Industrial Relations, 56 (4): 578–93.
- This article reviews the recent developments in employment relations in Japan and discusses how traditional Japanese employment relations systems with long-term employment still apply to core workers in large firms, but their share has been diminishing in favour of the continued growth of atypical employment or non-regular employees.
Suzuki, H. (2010) Employment relations in Japan: Recent changes under global competition and recession, Journal of Industrial Relations, 52 (3): 387–401.
- This article provides examples of management and employment-relations strategies at different European airlines.
Bamber, G. J., Hoffer Gittell, J., Kochan, T. A. and von Nordenflycht, A. (2009) Contrasting management and employment-relations strategies in European airlines, Journal of Industrial Relations, 51 (5): 635–52.
- This extremely useful article explores the evolution of employee involvement and participation and presents a detailed discussion of definitional ambiguity surrounding ‘employee voice’. It provides a more detailed supplement to the discussion presented in this chapter.
Markey, R. and Townsend, K. (2014) Contemporary trends in employee involvement and participation, Journal of Industrial Relations, 55 (4): 475–87.
- This article reviews recent national trends and developments in respect of the scope and coverage of collective bargaining, examining the evolution of collective bargaining institutions in different regions of the world and how these structures have adapted to competitive pressures. The article also considers challenges facing collective bargaining, including the prospects for increased coordination of bargaining practices both within and across borders.
Hayter, S., Fashoyin, T. and Kochan, T. A. (2011) Collective bargaining for the 21st century, Journal of Industrial Relations, 53 (2): 225–47.
- This article explores the John Lewis model of employee involvement and participation and how these practices have changed over time as a result of competing employee and managerial interests. It provides an interesting backdrop against which to consider the ‘contested terrain’ that is industrial democracy and how it can be undermined by management challenge.
Cathcart, A. (2013) Direct democracy: Competing interests and contested terrain in the John Lewis Partnership, Journal of Industrial Relations, 55 (4): 601–20.
- Situated in an ongoing debate regarding the meaning of, rationale for and effectiveness of non-union partnership arrangements, this article presents the findings of research undertaken to explore the operation of non-union partnership in practice and to evaluate its effectiveness.
Johnstone, S., Ackers, P. and Wilkinson, A. (2010) Better than nothing? Is non-union partnership a contradiction in terms?, Journal of Industrial Relations, 52 (2): 151–68.