Human Resource Management in a Societal Perspective

Sub-course 1: HR - an introduction

Boglind, A., Hällstén, F., & Thilander, P. (2011). HR transformation and shared services: Adoption and adaptation in Swedish organisations, Personnel Review, Vol. 40 Issue: 5, pp.570-588, https://doi-org.ezproxy.ub.gu.se/10.1108/00483481111154441

Briner, R. B., & Barends, E. (2016). The role of scientific findings in evidence-based HR. People & Strategy, 39(2), 16-21

Lawler III, E. E. (2007). Why HR practices are not evidence-based. Academy of Management Journal, 50(5), 1033-1036

Rousseau, D. M., & Barends, E. G. (2011). Becoming an evidence‐based HR practitioner. Human Resource Management Journal, 21(3), 221-235

Ulfsdotter Eriksson, Y. (2017). Global HRM standards as boundary objects: a device to enhance legitimacy and status, Personnel Review, Vol. 46 Issue: 6, pp.1089-1103, https://doi-org.ezproxy.ub.gu.se/10.1108/PR-01-2016-0013

van der Togt, J., & Rasmussen, T. H. (2017). Toward evidence-based HR. Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance, 4(2), 127-132

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Reference literature
Scott, W. R. (2008). Lords of the dance: Professionals as institutional agents. Organization studies, 29(2), 219-238.

Sub-course 2: Labour Relations

Baccaro, Lucio and Chris Howell (2017). Trajectories of neoliberal transformation: European industrial relations since the 1970s. Cambridge University Press. (in selection, app. 150 pages)

Bechter, Barbara and Brend Brandl. (2015) Measurement and analysis of industrial relations aggregates: what is the relevant unit of analysis in comparative research? European Political Science 14, 422–438. https://doi.org/10.1057/eps.2015.65

Choo, Hae Yeon, and Myra Marx Ferree. (2010). Practicing Intersectionality in Sociological Research: A Critical Analysis of Inclusions, Interactions, and Institutions in the Study of Inequalities. Sociological Theory, 28(2), 129–149.

Elgenius, Gabriella, Frank, Dennis, Omanović, Vedran, & Tomas Berglund (2024) Transmitted inequalities? In Berglund, Tomas and Ulfsdotter-Eriksson, Ylva (eds) Scrutinising Polarisation. Patterns and Consequences of Occupational Transformation in the Swedish Labour Market pp. 87-105.

Furåker, Bengt & Bengt Larsson (2020). Why and How to Study Trade Union Cooperation in Europe?. In: Trade Union Cooperation in Europe. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-38770-9\_1

Neufeind, M., O'Reilly, J. & Ranft, F. (2018) Work in the digital age: challenges of the fourth industrial revolution. Rowan & Littlefield. (in selection, app. 30 pages)

Scott, W. R. (2013). Institutions and organizations: Ideas, interests, and identities. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.

Ulfsdotter Eriksson, Ylva, & Erica Nordlander (2024) Occupational prestige and gendered polarisation. In Berglund, T. and Ulfsdotter-Eriksson, Y. (eds) Scrutinising Polarisation. Patterns and Consequences of Occupational Transformation in the Swedish Labour Market pp. 56-72

Visser, Jelle (2009) The quality of industrial relations and the Lisbon Strategy. https://dare.uva.nl/search?identifier=d887136a-5f5c-46f2-80de-79f18091e18a

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Reference literature

Acker, J (2006). Inequality Regimes: Gender, Class and Race in Organizations. Gender and Society, 20(4), 441-464. DOI: 10.1177/0891243206289499

Sub-course 3: Employment Relations and Strategies

Biswas, U. N., Allard, K., Pousette, A., & Härenstam, A. (2017). Understanding attractive work in a globalized world: Studies from India and Sweden. Singapore: Springer

Isidorsson, T., & Kubisa, J. (Eds.). (2018). Job Quality in an Era of Flexibility: Experiences in a European Context. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge

Jonsson, D. (2007). Flexibility, stability and related concepts. In Flexibility and stability in working life (pp. 30-41). Palgrave Macmillan: London. (availale as manuscript on Research Gate/handout)

Neufeind, M., O'Reilly, J., & Ranft, F. (2018). Work in the digital age: challenges of the fourth industrial revolution. London: Rowan & Littlefield. (in selection)

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