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Strategy and Human Resource Management.

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Strategy and Human Resource Management, 2nd edition, by Peter Boxall and John Purcell, New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2008, 351 pp., ISBN 978-1-403992-10-9.

Whilst this is a review of the above mentioned text, readers should be aware that an earlier edition was published in 2003. Super diligent and enquiring minds can commence a comparison of the two editions (outside the scope of this review) by reference to the Introduction section commencing at viii.

Authors Boxall and Purcell open by declaring their mission in Strategy and Human Resource Management as being: "to explore the ways in which human resource management (HRM) is strategic to organizational success." This requires an examination of how HRM affects organizations' viability and performance. We are told by the authors that the book is not organized around the classical HRM functions of recruitment, pay, training, etc. but rather the focus is on the need for a critical overview of the importance of how management tackles HRM; hence part 1 is about connecting strategy and HRM, part 2 is on general principles for managing work and people and part 3 examines the management of people in dynamic and...

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