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  • Practices and Practicalities in Human Resource Management

    Author(s)
    Ezzamel, M
    Lilley, S
    Wilkinson, A
    Willmott, H
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Wilkinson, Adrian J.
    Year published
    1996
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    Abstract
    A wide-ranging research project covering change and its implementation in 27 companies provides the opportunity to reassess the meaning and significance of HRM. It is suggested that it is too simple to dismiss HRM as "old wine in new bottles." Rather, they find important changes taking place. But the true significance of HRM, it is suggested, lies not in the fact that its practice actually does resolve underlying tensions but rather in its capacity to manage these by reducing, suppressing and glossing them. HRM itself is an outcome of the tensions in the employment relationship and, perhaps not surprisingly therefore, it ...
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    A wide-ranging research project covering change and its implementation in 27 companies provides the opportunity to reassess the meaning and significance of HRM. It is suggested that it is too simple to dismiss HRM as "old wine in new bottles." Rather, they find important changes taking place. But the true significance of HRM, it is suggested, lies not in the fact that its practice actually does resolve underlying tensions but rather in its capacity to manage these by reducing, suppressing and glossing them. HRM itself is an outcome of the tensions in the employment relationship and, perhaps not surprisingly therefore, it continues to express them.
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    Journal Title
    Human Resource Management Journal
    Volume
    6
    Issue
    1
    Subject
    Business and Management
    Psychology
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/16772
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