Download or read book Human Resource Management at the Crossroads written by Ramon Valle-Cabrera and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-02 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a selection of theoretical and empirical studies that highlight a number of complexities and challenges for Human Resource Management (HRM) in organizations. It serves to illustrate the difficulty in explaining the role of human resources and the complexities implicit in the management of people working together, highlighting several challenges that HRM managers face today. Several chapters provide an accurate picture of relevant topics and issues, by putting together different approaches and levels of analysis that undoubtedly enrich one another. Contributions include theoretical and empirical analyses of how technologies impact on the future of work, employees’ well-being as a consequence of the application of high-performance work systems, the challenges of managing employees’ careers and employee diversity, and the issue of employees’ commitment, among other topics.