Despite over three decades of debate around the nature of human resource management (HRM), its intellectual boundaries and its application in practice, the field continues to be dogged by a number of theoretical and practical limitations. 
Written by an international team of respected scholars, this updated textbook adopts a critical perspective to examine the core management function of HRM in all its complexity - including its darker sides.
Human Resource Management: A Critical Approach opens with a critique of the very concept of HRM, tracing its development over time, and then systematically analyses the context of HRM, practice of HRM and international perspectives on HRM. New chapters commissioned for this second edition look at HRM and the issues of diversity, migration, global supply chains and economic crisis. 
This textbook is essential reading for advanced and inquisitive students of HRM, and for HRM professionals looking to deepen their understanding of the complexities of their field.
                 
            
            
            
            
                
                    Chapter 1. Human resource management: a critical approach
David G Collings, Geoffrey T. Wood and Leslie T. Szamosi 
PART I 
Chapter 2. HRM in changing organisational contexts 
Phil Johnson and Leslie T. Szamosi 
Chapter 3. Strategic HRM: a critical review 
 
Jaap Paauwe and Corine Boon 
Chapter 4. HRM and organisational performance 
Stephen Wood 
Chapter 5. HRM: an ethical perspective 
Mick Fryer 
Chapter 6. HRM practies to diversity management: individualization, precariousness and precarity 
 
Darren T. Baker and Elisabeth K. Kelan
Chapter 7. Organizational outsourcing and the implications for HRM 
 
Fang Lee Cooke 
Chapter 8. Reconfiguration and regulation of supply chains and HRM in times of economic crisis
 
Phil Johnson, Geoffrey Wood, Pauline Dibben, John Cullen, Juliana Meira, Debby Bonnin, Luiz Miranda, Gareth Crockett and Caroline Linhares
Chapter 9. Knowledge and organisational learning and its management through HR practices: a critical perspective
 
Claire Gubbins 
Chapter 10. HRM in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
 
Tony Dundon and Adrian Wilkinson 
PART II 
Chapter 11: Recruitment and selection 
 
Rosalind Searle and Rami Al-Sharif
Chapter 12: HR planning: institutions, strategy, tools and techniques 
 
Zsuzsa Kispal-Vitai and Geoffrey Wood
Chapter 13: Performance management
 
Anthony McDonnell, Patrick Gunnigle and Kevin R. Murphy
Chapter 14: Reward management 
 
Suzanne Richbell and Geoffrey T. Wood
Chapter 15: Human resource development 
Irena Grugulis 
Chapter 16. Industrial relations and human resource management 
 
Gilton Klerck 
PART III 
Chapter 17. Human resource management in emerging markets 
 
Frank M. Horowitz and Kamel Mellahi 
Chapter 18. Comparative HRM: the debates and the evidence
 
Chris Brewster and Wolfgang Mayrhofer 
Chapter 19. International human resource management 
 
David G. Collings, Hugh Scullion and Deirdre Curran 
Chapter 20. HRM in crisis 
 
Mathew Johnson and Jill Rubery