Established management practices–such as Six Sigma or business process re‐engineering,
as well as more recent practices such as agile management processes, HR analytics and …

This review article suggests the English publication of Foucault's lectures on biopower, The
Birth of Biopolitics (2008), might be useful for extending our understandings of how …

Human capital theory–developed by neoclassical economists like Gary Becker and
Theodore Schultz–is widely considered a useful way to explain how employees might …

In the last century and a half, US industry has seen the emergence of several different
management models. We propose a theory of this evolution based on three nested and …

The project of writing this book back in 1999 began with a simple concern that the account of
organisational behaviour expressed or implied in academic work often did not give an …

The legitimacy of HRM is threatened by challenges to the impact of its core research
programme and the centrality of its practices and function. If HRM is in crisis, what are the …

This article extends research about high-commitment management practices in tightly
controlled work environments typified by the call centre. One promising research avenue …

Purpose–The paper seeks to explore the nature and employee experience of an emergent
approach to managing employees which emphasises “being yourself” through the …

The'personal'was once something to be put to one side in the work place: a'professional
manner'entailed the suppression of private life and feelings. Now many large corporations …

The book guides the student through the research process relevant to the completion of a
social work dissertation, examining the process of both empirical and literature based …