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 argues that the focus on bullying and harassment in the discussion around dignity at work fails to recognise the importance of a range of factors associated with social relationships in the workplace including trust, recognition, respect and autonomy.
Sayer, A. (2007) Dignity at work: Broadening the agenda, Organization, 14 (4): 565-81.
- This article examines the impact of current work and employment practices, and workforce characteristics, on the incidence of workplace accidents and ill health. It suggests that worker health is poorly served by existing management practice and that work-related injury and illness have a wide range of causes associated with contemporary work.
Robinson, A. and Smallman, C. (2006) The contemporary British workplace: A safer and healthier place?, Work, Employment and Society, 20 (1): 87-107.
- This article provides a detailed assessment of H&S issues in call centres. It concludes that management appears more likely to address the environmental causes of ill health rather than those relating to work organisation and job design.
Taylor, P., Baldry, C., Bain, P. and Ellis, V. (2003) A unique working environment: Health, sickness and absence management in UK call centres, Work, Employment and Society, 17 (3): 435-58.
- Alongside some detailed analysis of evidence regarding the incidence of workplace mental health, this article provides a useful overview of the incidence of mental ill health across Europe, its determinants and the broader regulatory contexts within which it manifests.
Cottini, E. and Lucifora, C. (2013) Mental health and working conditions in Europe, ILR Review, 66 (4): 958-88.
- This article explores attitudes towards workplace health and safety among the owner-managers of Danish SMEs and identifies a range of attitudes towards responsibility for workplace H&S, interpretation of risk and the role of regulation.
Hasle, P., Limborg, H. J., Kallehave, T., Klitgaard, C. and Andersen, T. R. (2012) The working environment in small firms: Responses from ownermanagers, International Small Business Journal, 30: 622-39.
- This article explores the effectiveness of well-being interventions with specific focus on the impact of managerial commitment and organisational context. Most significantly, the study found that context was crucial in mediating the effectiveness of interventions where work patterns and demands acted to counteract positive impact.
Greasley, K. and Edwards, P. (2015) When do health and well-being interventions work? Managerial commitment and context, Economic and Industrial Democracy, 36 (2): 355-77.
- This article examines the relationship between the employee-centred and management-centred roles of HR professionals and the extent to which the two are compatible in the area of employee well-being.
Brown, M., Metz, I., Cregan, C. and Kulik, C. T. (2009) Irreconcilable differences? Strategic human resource management and employee well-being, Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, 47 (3): 270-94.