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By problematising core HR topics and presenting significant new developments in the field, this engaging textbook will enable students to develop a nuanced and critical approach to HRM. It integrates students´ understanding of the key operational aspects of HRM with the wider institutional, social, political and economic contexts in which they occur, covering important and emerging topics such as intersectionality, wellbeing, international migration, globalisation and corporate governance. Theoretically-rigorous and rich in pedagogy, this textbook will hone students´ critical thinking skills, allowing them to confront higher level problems faced in HR and deal with complex real-world HR situations. A range of topical international case studies - ranging from iPhone factories in China to contemporary US politics - places HR issues in a comparative, global context.

This is an essential textbook for upper-undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA students studying contemporary or critical issues in HRM. It can also be used as a supplementary text by those wanting to deepen their knowledge of HRM and by practitioners keen to understand how core HRM topics intersect with wider contemporary and global issues.

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Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Corporate Governance and HRM.- Chapter 3: Global Political Economy and HRM within Global Turbulence.- Chapter 4: Politics, the Regulatory Environment and HRM.- Chapter 5: International Migration, Labour Mobility and HRM.- Chapter 6: The Nature, Efficacy and Realisation of HR Strategy.- Chapter 7: Critical Perspectives on the HR Professional as Internal Consultant.- Chapter 8: Globalisation, HRM and the Case of Offshoring.- Chapter 9: Employment Relations, International Framework Agreements and Global Unions.- Chapter 10: Critically Exploring the HRM Performance Link.- Chapter 11: Critical Issues in Learning and Development.- Chapter 12: Leadership from a Critical Perspective.- Chapter 13: Critical Issues in Reward Management.- Chapter 14: Equality, Diversity and Intersectionality in the Workplace.- Chapter 15: Wellbeing and Resilience in the Workplace.- Chapter 16: Comparing Universalists, Culturalists and Institutionalists in International HRM.- Chapter 17: Multinational Enterprises and HRM.- Chapter 18: HRM in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises.

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Ian Roper is reader at Essex Business School, University of Essex, UK. He is a member of the British Sociological Association and an Academic Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. He is an editor for the journal Work, Employment and Society.


Rea Prouska is Associate Professor of Human Resource Management at London South Bank University. She is an Academic Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.


Uracha Chatrakul Na Ayudhya is Lecturer in Organizational Psychology at Birkbeck, University of London. She is an Academic Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and an editor of Work, Employment and Society.

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