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This market-leading and pioneering core textbook outlines the essential principles in strategic HRM and provides students with an understanding of how HR strategies vary across a variety of contexts. Presented in a clear and accessible style, it links HRM theory with practice to demonstrate the role HRM should play in organisational performance. In examining the impact of HR strategy on organisational success and how this is affected by key organisational, industry and societal factors, it provides a nuanced and multi-layered perspective on this significant discipline. Redefining the framework developed in previous editions, this engaging textbook has been thoroughly updated with cutting edge research and it continues to challenge students, academics and practitioners to approach HRM from a strategic perspective.
Written by world-leading experts with a combined wealth of industry, research and teaching experience, Strategy and Human Resource Management is an essential core textbook for upper-level undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA students, as well as practitioners interested in the key role that HRM plays in business success.

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PART I: FOUNDATIONS.- 1. Human Resource Management: what and why?.- 2. Strategy and Strategic Management.- PART II: GENERAL PRINCIPLES.- 3. Strategic HRM: ´best fit´ or ´best practice´?.- 4. Strategic HRM and sustained competitive advantage.- 5. Building a workforce: the challenge of interest alignment.- 6. Management power, employee voice and social legitimacy.- 7. Workforce performance and the ´black box´ of HRM.- PART III: SPECIFIC CONTEXTS.- 8. HR strategy in manufacturing.- 9. HR strategy in services.- 10. HR strategy in multidivisional firms.- 11. HR strategy in multinational firms.- 12. Final thoughts: main themes and next steps.

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Peter Boxall is Professor of Human Resource Management and Associate Dean of Research at the University of Auckland Business School, New Zealand.

John Purcell is Visiting Professor at the School of Management, Bath University, UK. Until 2015 he held the position of the Deputy Chairman of the UK´s Central Arbitration Committee for 15 years.

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