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In Search of HRM
Article first published online: 2 JAN 2009
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8543.1993.tb00389.x
© 1993 Blackwell Publishing Ltd / London School of Economics
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Sisson, K. (1993), In Search of HRM. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 31: 201–210. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8543.1993.tb00389.x
Publication History
- Issue published online: 2 JAN 2009
- Article first published online: 2 JAN 2009
- Final version accepted 17 December 1992
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Abstract
HRM has been the industrial relations issue of the 1980s and early 1990s. Although it has very few direct references to HRM, WIRS3 sheds considerable light on a number of the debates involved. Not only does it suggest that some of the ideas and practices associated with HRM appear to be taking root; its most striking, and paradoxical, findings are that these fragments of HRM are to be found in union rather than non-union workplaces. These findings have considerable implications for policy and practice as well as for future WIRSs.