New Wave Manufacturing Strategies: Organizational and Human Resource Management Dimensions (Human Resource Management series)

NEW WAVE MANUFACTURING STRATEGIES

Human Resource Management Series: Foreword The two integrating themes of this series are organizational change, and the strategic role of the humiln resource function. The 1980s witm,ssed a fundamental shift in thinking with respect to the organizational role of the personnel function. That shift is typically reflected in the change of title - to human resource management - and revolves around the notion that effective human resource management is a crit­ ical dimension of an organization's competitive advantage. Personnel or human resource management is thus now more widely accepted as a strategic business function, in contrast with the traditional image of a routine administrative oper­ ation

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terminating. The range of issues with which personnel managers must now deal has widened considerably, as has the complexity and significance of those issues. Conventional texts in this subject area typically have the advantage of comprehensive­ ness, by offering a broad overview of the function, its responsibilities, and key trends. Such coverage is always bought at the expense of depth. The aim of this series, there­ fore, is not to replace tradition 2

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