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Back to the Future: Implications for the Field of HRM of the Multistakeholder Perspective Proposed 30 Years Ago

Michael Beer¹; Paul Boselie²; Chris Brewster^3,4,5,6

¹ Harvard Business School, TruePoint, and the Center for Higher Ambition Leadership · ² Utrecht University School of Governance, Utrecht University the Netherlands · ³ Henley Business School, University of Reading United Kingdom · ⁴ Vaasa University Finland · ⁵ Radboud University the Netherlands · ⁶ ISCTE Portugal

Thirty years on from the seminal works on human resource management (HRM) by Beer et al., we examine how the subject has developed. We offer a normative review, based on that model and critique the assumption that the business of HRM is solely to improve returns to owners and shareholders. We identify the importance of a wider view of stakeholders to practitioners and how academic studies on the periphery of HRM are beginning to adopt such a view. We argue that the HRM studies so far have given us much valuable learning but that the subject has now reached a point where we need to take a wider, more contextual, more multilayered approach founded on the long‐term needs of all relevant stakeholders. The original Beer et al. model remains a valuable guide to the next 30 years of HRM. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

DOI

10.1002/hrm.21726

Volume

54 (3)

Pages

427-438

Language

en

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