This innovative text applies a systems theory perspective to strategic human resource management, drawing particularly on the Viable System Model and soft systems methodology.
Readers are introduced to different ways of thinking about systems and shown how systems can interact, triggering changes in the competitive environment – and how HR systems can either facilitate or inhibit adaptation to these changes. Peppered with international examples throughout, this book considers key HR topics such as recruitment, reward, employment relations, culture, diversity and leadership, all through a systems lens. It shows how an understanding of system dynamics can help managers to recognise complexity, accept the inevitability of short-term systemic conflicts and anticipate the likely consequences.
This text will be suitable for upper-level undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA students of strategic HRM, HRM and strategic management. It will also be thought-provoking for HR professionals looking to embrace a strategic role in their organizations.
Author(s): Nigel Bassett-Jones
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 308
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
PART 1: SHRM From a Systems Perspective
1. Strategic HRM and the Systems Perspective
2. What Is a System and What Is the Value of a Systems Approach?
3. The Organisation as a System
4 A Critical Evaluation of the Systems Perspective, When Applied to SHRM
5 Organisational Orientations to the Labour Market and Their Implications
6. SHRM and the Management of Innovation
7. SHRM and the Management of Change
8. Labour Markets, HR Planning and Recruitment and Selection
9. Pay and Reward Practises and Their Implications for Corporate Cultures
10. Human Resource Development From a Systems Perspective
11. Industrial and Employee Relations Seen Through a Systems Lens
12. Delivering Solutions to Complex Organisational Problems Using Soft Systems Modelling
PART 2: The Future of SHRM From a Systems Perspective
13. The New Saeculum and Its Implications for Strategic Human Resource Management?
14. A Systems Dynamic Perspective of the Post-Covid-19 World
15. Epilogue
Glossary of Systems Theory Terminology
Index
