Case studies in work, employment and human resource management
edited by Tony Dundon (Professor of Human Resource Management and Employment Realtions, Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick, Ireland and Visiting Professor, Work and Equalities Institute (WEI), Universtiy of Manchester, UK), Adrian Wilkinson (Professor of Employment Relations and Human Resource Management and Director of the Center for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing, Griffith University, Australia and Visiting Professor, University of Sheffield, UK)
Contents: 1. Work, employment and human resource management : Case study applications (1) / Tony Dundon and Adrian Wilkinson -- SECTION I. PEOPLE RESOURCING: 2. Fishing for diversity in legal talent pools: Recruiting early talent at Pinsent Masons (7) / Dora Scholarios and Scott A. Hurrell -- 3. Rethinking the selection process in Saltire Brokers (14) / Scott A. Hurrell, Giuliana Mazzoni and Dora Scholarios -- 4. Defending wellbeing at work: A case study on autism (20) / Alan Roe and Alexandra Athelstan-Price -- 5. Flexibility in recession and recovery (25) / Stewart Johnstone and Stephen Procter -- SECTION II. HR STRATEGY, REWARDS AND PERFORMANCE: 6. Determinants of human resource management strategy in a franchise (32) / Ashlea Kellner -- 7. Contribution based pay in local government (39) / Mathew Johnson -- 8. A high performance work system in a multi-stakeholder context (45) / Eva Knies, Peter Leisink and Paul Boselie -- 9. Performance management: Rewarding for performance at Sprooker Inc. (52) / Ryan B. Gould and Wayne O'Donohue -- 10. Gender pay gaps at Southside University Hospital Trust (59) / Carol Woodhams, Sheila Wild and Carol Atkinson -- 11. The campaign for a 'real Living Wage' (67) / Peter Prowse, Tony Dobbins and Ray Fells -- SECTION III. WORKPLACE RELATIONS AND VOICE: 12. Employee voice and transnational regulation: Double-breasting at BritCo (76) / Niall Cullinane, Tony Dundon, Jimmy Donaghey, Eugene Hickland and Tony Dobbins -- 13. Is Ryanair the Southwest Airlines of Europe? (80) / Geraint Harvey and Peter Turnbull -- 14. Uber and the problem of regulatory arbitrage (90) / Michael Walker -- 15. Public sector employee engagement initiatives and employee voice results (95) / Russell Robinson -- 16. Resistance, mischief and misbehavior @ The Jad-Gin Co. (JGC) (100) / Caroline Murphy, Lorraine Ryan and Tony Dundon -- 17. The divided workforce : Zero hours work at Sports Direct (105) / Michelle O'Sullivan -- SECTION IV. HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT, DIVERSITY, SKILLS AND TRAINING: 18. Learning from doing and telling at work (112) / James Brooks, Irena Grugulis and Hugh Cook -- 19. For some or all? Debating the value of inclusive and exclusive approaches to talent management (118) / Sharna Wiblen -- 20. What is competence? Theory, policy and practice (123) / Jonathan Winterton and Travis Turnbow -- 21. Gender at Victoria Police: A long way travelled (129) / Georgina Caillard and Julie Wolfram Cox -- 22. Workplace bullying at Neptune Plc (137) / Ria Deakin and Helge Hoel -- 23. New forms of worker organising: Sex work in Argentina (142) / Kate Hardy -- SECTION V. CULTURE AND JOB QUALITY: 24. System error, restart? Allegations of sex discrimination at Microsoft Corp. (148) / Anthony Rafferty -- 25. Changing organisational hierarchies : Knowledge Ltd (156) / Rory Donnelly -- 26. Worker wellbeing at Jacaranda House (161) / Susan Ressia, Adrian Wilkinson and Paula K. Mowbray -- 27. What makes a good job for low-waged workers? (166) / Chris Warhurst and Sally Wright -- 28. Organizing project-based work in the games industry : Two contrasting cases (172) / Wike Been and Noëlle Payton -- 29. Human resource management and relationship marketing : How two organizations leveraged tattoos to build their brand (178) / Andrew R. Timming -- SECTION VI. LEADERSHIP AND CHANGE: 30. Meaningless leadership (184) / Leo McCann -- 31. Amazon: HRM and change in the house of neo-liberalism (191) / Brian Harney and Tony Dundon -- 32. Leadership and change at Ford Motor Company (201) ; Dan H. Langerud and Peter J. Jordan -- 33. Implementing performance management in a public sector organisation in a developing country (207) / Thuraya Farhana Haji Said -- SECTION VII. INTERNATIONAL HRM: 34. HR function at MNC subsidiary level: Mediating challenges and tensions (216) / Jonathan Lavelle, Patrick Gunnigle and Sinead Monaghan -- 35. Implementing HRM within multinational corporations : Localisation or global standardisation? (222) / Anastasia Kynighou -- 36. Global talent and mobility in a decentralised multinational enterprise (230) / Anthony McDonnell, Stefan Jooss and Hugh Scullion -- 37. Strategy and people management in China - Haier as an example (239) / Fang Lee Cooke -- 38. Emiratization : Benefits and challenges of strategic and radical change in the United Arab Emirates (245) / Rachid Zeffane and Linzi Kemp -- 39. Survival and outsourcing in the South African clothing and textiles industry : The changing fortunes of ClothTran (254) / Christine Bischoff and Geoffrey Wood -- 40. Cultural and logistical preparation of expatriates (261) / William Despotovic -- SECTION VIII. GLOBAL LABOUR RIGHTS: 41. Labor practices in Apple's supply chains in China (266) / Jenny Chan -- 42. Framing workers' rights internationally : The case of Volkswagen and transnational collective agreements (272) / Stephen Mustchin, Miguel Martínez Lucio, Michael Whittall, Fernando Rocha and Volker Telljohann -- 43. Labour rights and global standards : What the Ali Enterprises fire tells us about social accountability and labour conditions in an international supply chain (277) / Jean Jenkins -- Index (285).
