Title
Innovation and HRM: absences and politics
Document Type
Journal Article
Abstract
This article analyses the role of HRM practices in the implementation of an innovative cross-functional approach to new product development (concurrent engineering, CE) in Eurotech Industries. Contrary to CE methodology stipulations, and despite supportive conditions, HRM received scant attention in the implementation process. Organizational power and politics were clearly involved in this situation, and this article explores how their play created such HRM ‘absences’. The article builds on a four-dimensional view of power in order to provide a deeper understanding of the embedded, interdependent and political nature of HRM practice and innovation.
RIS ID
24973
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Publication Details
Zanko, M., Badham, R., Couchman, P. & Schubert, M. (2008). Innovation and HRM: absences and politics. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 19 (4), 562-581.