The new edition of this SAGE Handbook builds on the success of the first by providing a fully updated and expanded overview of the field of human resource management.

Bringing together contributions from leading international scholars - and with brand new chapters on key emerging topics such as talent management, engagement , e-HRM and big data - the Handbook focuses on familiarising the reader with the fundamentals of applied human resource management, while contextualizing practice within wider theoretical considerations. Internationally minded chapters combine a critical overview with discussion of key debates and research, as well as comprehensively dealing with important emerging interests. The second edition of this Handbook remains an indispensable resource for advanced students and researchers in the field.

PART 01: Context of Human Resource Management
PART 02: Fundamentals of Human Resource Management
PART 03: Contemporary Issues

About the Author
Adrian Wilkinson is Professor at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia and is Visiting Professor at the University of Sheffield and an Academic Fellow at the Centre for International Human Resource Management at the Judge Institute, University of Cambridge. Adrian has authored, co-authored and edited some 30 books, over 150 articles in refereed journals and numerous book chapters. Recent books (with co-authors): The Oxford Handbook of Management (OUP, 2017), A very short, fairly interesting and reasonably cheap book about employment relations (Sage, 2017), The Routledge Companion to Employment Relations (Routledge, 2018), The Sage Handbook of Human Resource Management (Sage, 2019), The Future of Work and Employment (Elgar, 2020), Case Studies in Work, Employment and Human Resource Management (Elgar, 2020) and the Handbook of Research on Employee Voice (Elgar, 2020.) He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development in the UK and a Fellow of the Australian Human Resource Institute. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences.

Reviews
The new edition of the Sage Handbook 'The SAGE Handbook of Human Resource Management' edited by Adrian Wilkinson, Nick Bacon, Scott Snell and David Lepak brings together many of the world's leading academic experts on HRM to provide 32 high quality chapters addressing all the contemporary issues in HRM. The outstanding set of contributors to this volume provide a state-of-the-art analysis of the evolution, the challenges and the emerging developments in HRM within an international context. Anyone looking for thoughtful and authoritative accounts of all the important areas of HRM will find them here.
-- David E. Guest

This handbook offers powerful, convincing and authoritative accounts of current debates in the field of Human Resource Management as well as mapping out likely future developments. It provides an indispensable source of material for the next generation of scholars, practitioners and students in the field.

-- Kim Hoque



Book Information
ISBN 9781526435026
Author Adrian Wilkinson
Format Hardback
Page Count 638
Imprint Sage Publications Ltd
Publisher Sage Publications Ltd
Weight(grams) 1290g