Human Resource Management: a Very Short Introduction

Abstract

Adrian Wilkinson reviews the historical development of human resource management, showing how the changes in political, legal, and macroeconomic spheres have shaped how human resources are managed. Considering HRM in a global world, he considers how it is adapting to a very different work landscape.

- Considers the ways human resource management functions in our global world, and how it copes with issues such as competition, regulation, cultural differences, and remote working - Uses cases and examples to analyse the development of human resource management - Shows how the changes in political, legal, social, and macroeconomic spheres have shaped how human resources are managed - Describes how the key players and watershed moments in labour history led to the state of human resource management today - Part of the Very Short Introductions series - over ten million copies sold worldwide