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 provides a useful overview of the concept and extent of the informal economy. It provides a useful counterweight to the discussions of labour markets that present all work as paid and subject to regulatory provision.
Williams, C. (2014) Out of the shadows: A classification of economies by the size and character of their informal sector, Work, Employment and Society, 28 (5): 735–53.
- This article provides an interesting discussion of the relationship between higher education and economic competitiveness and stresses the importance of better understanding the concept of ‘graduate skills’ and their connection to employment.
James, S., Warhurst, C., Tholen, G. and Commander, J. (2013) What we know and what we need to know about graduate skills, Work, Employment and Society, 27 (6): 952–63.
- This article presages the discussion in Chapter 11 of the implications for management of an ageing workforce, in particular the treatment of older workers in respect of training and development. It suggests that management behaviour towards older workers has not changed in line with the wider social and labour-market context, particularly in respect of the opportunities provided for continued development in later years.
Beck, V. (2012) Employers’ views of learning and training for an ageing workforce, Management Learning, 45 (2): 200–15.
- In this paper, Nickson et al. seek to challenge the assumption that retail work is inherently low-skilled by considering the dimensions of work in the high-end retail sector and the manner in which both managers and employees talk about their work. It explores how such workers seek to distinguish themselves from other retail workers in terms of required skill, but also notes the importance of recognising differences in skill level in ostensibly similar work.
Nickson, D., Price, R., Baxter-Reid, H. and Hurrell, S. A. (2017) Skill requirements in retail work: The case of high-end fashion retailing, Work, Employment and Society, 31 (4): 692–708.
- In this article the authors outline the causes and consequences of the shift from patterns of employment associated with industrial societies towards the contingent work that is increasingly associated with employment in a knowledge-based economy.
Szabó, K. and Négyesi, A. (2005) The spread of contingent work in the knowledge-based economy, Human Resource Development Review, 4 (1): 63–85.
- This article presents research evidence that demonstrates the erosion of the classical model of the internal labour market in four large firms as a result of pressures both inside and outside of the organisation. The article reports on implications both for employers and employees.
Grimshaw, D., Ward, K., Rubery, J. and Beynon, H. (2008) Organisations and the transformation of the internal labour market, Work, Employment and Society, 15 (1): 25–54.
- Kalleberg discusses some key ways in which employers have sought to restructure their workforces to become more flexible and the consequences of such restructuring for workers and jobs, particularly the extent to which flexibility strategies create workforce division.
Kalleberg, A. L. (2003) Flexible firms and labor market segmentation: Effects of workplace restructuring on jobs and workers, Work and Occupations, 30 (2): 154–75.
- This article reviews the literature regarding the new type of worker associated with the gig economy and whether they can be classified as an employee or as self-employed, providing a useful overview of the type of business model on which gig work is based. The article concludes by making the case that such employment requires new labour regulation to protect their interests.
Todoli-Signes, A (2017) The ‘gig economy’: Employee, self-employed or the need for a special employment regulation, Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 23 (2): 193–205.