Reassessing Human Resource Management

HRM/Debates Dilemmas and Contradictions/PART ONE: THE EMERGENCE OF HRM/HRM/A Map Model or Theory?/Human Resource Management Competition and Strategy/Some Productive Tensions/Human Resource Maximization/The Management of Labour under Just-in-Time Manufacturing Systems/PART TWO: DIMENSIONS OF HRM/Organization Culture and Human Resource Management/Dilemmas and Contradictions/Empowerment or Emasculation? Shop Floor Surveillance in a Total Quality Organization/HRM and the Limits of Flexibility/Decentralization/Friend or Foe of HRM?/`Locating the Line'/The Front-Line Supervisor and Human Resource Management/Reward Management and HRM/New Technology and Human Resource Management/PART THREE: MANAGEMENT UNIONS AND HRM/Managers' Attitudes to Human Resource Management/Rhetoric and Reality/Human Resource Management and Trade Union Responses/Bringing the Politics of the Workplace Back into the Debate/PART FOUR: A NEW FORM OF MANAGEMENT PRACTICE?/HRM/Metaphor Meaning and Morality/Afterword