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 reviews the available literature on employee downsizing and develops an integrative framework that incorporates environmental and organisational drivers of downsizing as well as the implications for individuals and organisations.
Datta, D. K., Guthrie, J. P., Basuil, D. and Pandey, A. (2010) Causes and effects of employee downsizing: A review and synthesis, Journal of Management, 36 (1): 281–348.
- This useful conceptual discussion adds to the discussion of knowledge work and workers in this chapter with a particular focus on human resource development. It addresses two fundamental questions of particular interest: First, what are the characteristics of knowledge work? Second, how should organisations develop employees to performance such work?
Jacobs, R. L. (2017) Knowledge work and human resource development, Human Resource Development Review, 16 (2): 176–202.
- This article covers some of the key issues outlined in this chapter in discussing how KM affects innovation within SMEs. In particular, it sets out how a firm’s dynamic capabilities mediate between KM practices and innovation performance and acts to explain differences in performance between firms.
Alegre, J., Sengupta, K. and Lapiedra, R. (2011) Knowledge management and innovation performance in a high-tech SME sector, International Small Business Journal, 1–17.
- This study examines the relationship between an organisation’s HR system and its innovation strategy. It identifies multiple HR systems within knowledge-intensive firms in the same sector, concluding that performance outcomes are related to the extent to which these systems are aligned with the specific innovation strategy being pursued in each firm.
Collins, C. and Kehoe, R. (2017) Examining strategic fit and misfit in the management of knowledge workers, ILR Review, 70 (2): 308–35
- This article discusses many of the issues surrounding the management of knowledge workers, including the problems of making tacit knowledge explicit and issues of power and control in the employment relationship. The discussion also provides an important context to debates around knowledge management by situating it within wider managerial and labour process theory.
Sewell, G. (2005) Nice work? Rethinking managerial control in an era of knowledge work, Organization, 12 (5): 685–704.
- This article investigates the challenges of managing core HR practices within global IT firms given the outsourcing and staff transfer that are central to the IT services sector. It concludes that the internal and external conditions of these firms create tension in the design and implementation of HR practices.
Grimshaw, D. and Miozzo, M. (2009) New human resource management practices in knowledge-intensive business services firms: The case of outsourcing with staff transfer, Human Relations, 62 (10): 1521–50.
- This article explores HRM outsourcing activity in Australian firms. It investigates the areas of HRM that are most likely to be initiated using external consultants, whether organisational size or sector impacts on the outsourcing decision, and the type of skills that HRM consultants bring into organisations.
Sheehan, C. (2009) Outsourcing HRM activities in Australian organisations, Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, 47 (2): 236–53.