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 considers the challenges of staffing in modern organisations, including workforce diversity, skills shortages and competition for applicants, and provides a critical analysis of recent literature on staffing best practices.
Ployhart, R. E. (2006) Staffing in the 21st century: New challenges and strategic opportunities, Journal of Management, 32 (6): 868-97.
- This article reviews the literature on turnover rates and organisational performance from a variety of perspectives, concluding that high employee turnover has negative implications for many aspects of organisational performance. It argues, however, that the content of turnover rates is important in determining the degree of impact.
Shaw, J. D. (2011) Turnover rates and organizational performance: Review, critique, and research agenda, Organizational Psychology Review, 1: 187-213.
- This paper provides a useful overview of strategic recruitment and its importance in relation to strategic human resource management. The authors propose the ideas of vertical and horizontal strategic recruitment as means by which to assess the extent of integration of recruitment activity within the wider organisational context.
Phillips, J. M. and Gully, S. M. (2015) Multilevel and strategic recruitment: Where have we been, where can we go from here? Journal of Management, 41 (5): 1416-45.
- This paper considers the arguments for and against the use of social media content to inform hiring decisions, within the legal and ethical context of the UK and USA. It addresses concerns about privacy and security, impression management and discrimination, concluding that it remains to be seen whether information from social networks is useful in recruitment and selection.
Jeske, D. and Shultz, K. S. (2015) Using social media content for screening in recruitment and selection: Pros and cons, Work, Employment and Society, 30 (3): 535-46.
- This article explores how the development of a strong employer brand can positively impact on employee commitment to an organisation. In doing so, it identifies a range of antecedents to be promoted in employer branding, such as work–life balance and development opportunities, which positively impact on employee retention.
Tanwar, K. and Prasad, A. (2016) Exploring the relationship between employer branding and employee retention, Global Business Review, 17 (35): 1865-2065.
- This article articulates how the selection interview frequently serves as a political arena for various power networks in the organisation, whose interests may be conflicting, and discusses how this political game can be played out in the selection process.
Bozionelos, N. (2005) When the inferior candidate is offered the job: The selection interview as a political and power game, Human Relations, 58 (12): 1605-31.