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Bringing together over fifty leading global experts, this Research
Handbook provides a state-of-the-art overview of research findings
regarding Human Resource Management (HRM) in the public sector.
Original chapters provide useful insights from two different
disciplines: public administration and HRM. They illustrate that
the public context of organisations matters and discuss research
findings detailing how this plays out in practice. Divided into six
distinct parts, this Research Handbook covers the key areas of
strategic HRM, the HRM cycle, HRM and the outcomes, linking
mechanisms in the HRM value chain, as well as HRM and context.
Providing crucial information, Part VI examines the main future
challenges for HRM in public organisations and provides extensive
knowledge across different areas for future research. This engaging
Research Handbook will be an excellent resource for scholars in
public administration as well as HRM practitioners and scholars
with interests in the public contexts and how this affects HRM. It
will also provide obligatory reading for advanced students to
understand the distinctiveness of HRM in public organisations.
Economic Restructuring and the Growing Uncertainty of the Middle
Class focuses on a relatively new research area which is becoming
increasingly more important: the growing uncertainty of the middle
class. Until recently, members of the middle class were not only
assured of a good social and economic position but also of the
continuation of this position. Nowadays, economic and
organisational changes are threatening this once secure position.
The boundaries between the middle classes and the working class are
becoming less and less visible. Making a career', which was in the
past central for middle class people, is becoming ever more
difficult. Moreover, organisational restructuring is threatening
their employment. It seems that insecurity is becoming a central
element in the lives of members of the middle class. In this book
experts from several European countries discuss the question of to
what extent the position of the middle class is really changing.
They also discuss the mechanisms that are propelling these changes,
and the effects these changes have on the attitudes of middle-class
people. As the experts are from several parts of Europe (Great
Britain, Germany, The Netherlands, Greece, Spain and Russia), the
reader can compare the situation of the middle classes in these
various countries. This book contains valuable information for
anyone interested in this important topic: not only for those
involved in the studies of economic and organisational change and
social stratification and those interested in the similarities and
differences between European countries, but (amongst others) for
policy-makers, managers, and trade union representatives who will
be dealing with problems induced by the changes that are discussed
in the book.
Economic Restructuring and the Growing Uncertainty of the Middle
Class focuses on a relatively new research area which is becoming
increasingly more important: the growing uncertainty of the middle
class. Until recently, members of the middle class were not only
assured of a good social and economic position but also of the
continuation of this position. Nowadays, economic and
organisational changes are threatening this once secure position.
The boundaries between the middle classes and the working class are
becoming less and less visible. `Making a career', which was in the
past central for middle class people, is becoming ever more
difficult. Moreover, organisational restructuring is threatening
their employment. It seems that insecurity is becoming a central
element in the lives of members of the middle class. In this book
experts from several European countries discuss the question of to
what extent the position of the middle class is really changing.
They also discuss the mechanisms that are propelling these changes,
and the effects these changes have on the attitudes of middle-class
people. As the experts are from several parts of Europe (Great
Britain, Germany, The Netherlands, Greece, Spain and Russia), the
reader can compare the situation of the middle classes in these
various countries. This book contains valuable information for
anyone interested in this important topic: not only for those
involved in the studies of economic and organisational change and
social stratification and those interested in the similarities and
differences between European countries, but (amongst others) for
policy-makers, managers, and trade union representatives who will
be dealing with problems induced by the changes that are discussed
in the book.
The state of European integration is a contested issue raising many
important questions: what is the impact of enlargement on the
social standards in old and new EU Member States? Will public
sector employment relations suffer from governments' attempts to
make their national economies more competitive? What are the
prospects for a European Social Model? What influence can
governments, employers and trade unions have on industrial
relations that are changing with the European integration process?
These are the issues that this book addresses on the basis of solid
empirical evidence. The authors are expert researchers from Western
and Eastern Europe, and their work comes at a timely moment for
scientific and political audiences. This book presents an
evidence-based assessment of the impact of EU enlargement on
industrial relations and social standards in old and new EU Member
States. It combines chapters which give an overview of the process
of enlargement/integration and comparative socio-economic data at
EU and national level, with chapters that present an in-depth
analysis of the impact of European integration on national
industrial relations. These in-depth analyses cover both a number
of old EU Member States in Western Europe and new Member States in
Central and Eastern Europe. The book combines supranational
European, Western and Eastern perspectives on the impact of
European integration. A combination of solid empirical data and
critical theoretically informed analyses, Industrial Relations in
the New Europe will be of great interest to researchers and
students in various fields, including industrial relations, public
sector employment relations, European Studies, socio-economic
studies and political science.
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