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Innovation and HRM : absences and politics

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posted on 2024-06-13, 08:12 authored by M Zanko, R Badham, P Couchman, M Schubert
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.

History

Journal

International journal of human resource management

Volume

19

Pagination

562-581

Location

London, England

ISSN

0958-5192

eISSN

1466-4399

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2008, Taylor & Francis

Issue

4

Publisher

Routledge