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 article discusses research exploring how management that encourages ‘fun’, ‘play’ and displays of individuality at work do not necessarily represent freedom from workplace control but managerially prescribed freedom within, and distraction from, more conventional means of worker control.
Fleming, P. and Sturdy, A. (2011) ‘Being yourself’ in the electronic sweatshop: New forms of normative control, Human Relations, 64 (2): 177–200.
- This article examines the role of the Internet and social media in mobilising trade unions in labour conflicts, focusing on the British Airways cabin crew dispute of 2010–11. It provides both an interesting example of the dynamics of a lengthy industrial dispute and an assessment of the potential of social media as a tool for both expressing collective dissatisfaction and organising a collective response to management’s actions.
Upchurch, M. and Grassman, R. (2016) Striking with social media: The contested (online) terrain of workplace conflict, Organization, 23 (5): 639–56.
- This article discusses the growth in interest in mediation as a preferred mechanism for dealing with workplace conflict. It reports on empirical evidence to support the view that mediation can help to develop more positive workplace relations and allow unions to re-establish influence.
Saundry, R., McArdle, L. and Thomas, P. (2013) Reframing workplace relations? Conflict resolution and mediation in a primary care trust, Work, Employment and Society, 27 (2): 213–31.
- This thought-provoking article discusses how organisational approaches to handling workplace bullying are undermined by the nature of the capitalist employment relationship and, despite potential costs, managers can benefit in certain contexts by employing bullying behaviour as one aspect of managerial control.
Beale, D. and Hoel, H. (2011) Workplace bullying and the employment relationship: Exploring questions of prevention, control and context, Work, Employment and Society, 25 (1): 5–18.
- Based on a review of the extant literature and interviews with policy-makers, Hutchinson argues that much discussion of workplace bullying as an individual problem overlooks the significance of organisational, employment and cultural factors.
Hutchinson, J. (2012) Rethinking workplace bullying as an employment relations problem, Journal of Industrial Relations, 55 (5): 637–52.
- This article explores the influence of organisational culture on the tendency for line managers to use informal strategies, rather than formal procedures, to address employee discipline and how tangible and intangible cues for management practice interact to shape the approach adopted to discipline.
Franklin, A. L. and Pagan, J. F. (2006) Organization culture as an explanation for employee discipline practices, Review of Public Personnel Administration, 26 (1): 52–73.