Elgar Introduction to Theories of Human Resources and Employment Relations

Edited by Keith Townsend, Professor of Human Resources and Employment Relations, Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing, Griffith University, Australia, Kenneth Cafferkey, Associate Professor of HRM, Sunway University Business School, Malaysia, Aoife M. McDermott, Professor of Human Resource Management, Aston University, UK, Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley, US and Adjunct Professor, Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing, Griffith University, Australia and Tony Dundon, Professor of Employment Relations and Human Resource Management, University of Limerick, Ireland and the Work and Equalities Institute, University of Manchester, UK

‘Bringing together a diverse set of authors of distinguished pedigree, this collection provides an authoritative survey of theories of the employment relationship. Classical theories of work and employment are fully represented, with excellent chapters on Marxism, pluralism, feminism, human relations, labour process and systems theory, but so too are newer theoretical currents, many of which have their point of origin in the broader field of management studies. There are strong chapters on trust, role theory, evolution, paradox, social exchange, RBV and AMO: bodies of thought that are generating fresh understandings of employment and how it is managed. The collection as a whole is an invaluable resource for students, teachers and researchers; a broad-ranging and imaginative survey of how we think about work.’

• Contents:1. Theories used in Employment Relations and Human Resource ManagementKeith Townsend, Aoife M. McDermott, Kenneth Cafferkey and Tony Dundon2. Marxism at WorkRoger Seifert 3. Neo-Pluralism in contemporary employment relations and HRM: the case for workplace and academic dialoguePeter Ackers4. Applying Scientific Management to Modern HRM and ERNiall Cullinane and Jean Cushen5. Cracking Labour Process theory in employment relations and HRMShiona Chillas and Alina Baluch6. The legacy of the Human Relations School: Looking back and moving forwardSarah Jenkins7. The theory of high-performance work systemsPeter Boxall and Meng-Long Huo8. Systems Theory: Forgotten Legacy and Future ProspectsBrian Harney9. Evolutionary psychological theory and human resource managementAndrew Timming10. Personnel Economics: Managing Human Resources through Performance-related PayVictoria Wass11. Advances in Labour Regulation TheoryPeter Waring and Mark Bray12. Institutional Theory, Business Systems and Employment RelationsGeoffrey Wood and Matthew Allen13. Varieties of CapitalismGlenn Morgan and Heike Doering14. Human Resource Management and Paradox TheoryAnne Keegan, Julia Brandl and Ina Aust 15. Revisiting Human Capital Theory: Progress and ProspectsJonathan Winterton and Kenneth Cafferkey16. Feminist Theory and Employment RelationsAnne-Marie Greene 17. Trust, Distrust And Human Resource Management Neve Iseava, Colin Hughes and Mark Saunders18. Social Exchange Theory, Employment Relations and Human Resource Management Christine Cross and Tony Dundon19. Using Role Theory to Understand and Solve Employment Relations and Human Resources Problems Qian Yi Lee, Keith Townsend, Ashlea Troth and Rebecca Loudoun20. Fairness in the workplace: Organisational justice and the employment relationshipMelinda Laundon, Paula McDonald and Abby Cathcart21. Ability, Motivation, and Opportunity Theory: A formula for employee performance? Ashlea Kellner, Kenneth Cafferkey and Keith Townsend22. The Resource-Based View Approach and HRMKeith Whitfield 23. LMX and HRM: A multi-level review of how LMX is used to explain employment relationshipsAnna Bos-Nehles and Mieke Audenaert24. Social Mobilisation Theory in HR and employment relationsLorraine Ryan, Caroline Murphy and Daniel TroyIndex