Research handbook on line managers

"This timely Research Handbook brings together 24 chapters with a wide range of different theoretical perspectives, empirical research, and innovative thought provoking ideas relating to an area of organisation and management that has been neglected for many decades - line managers. With a resu...

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Other Authors: Townsend, Keith (Editor), Bos-Nehles, Anna (Editor), Jiang, Kaifeng (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Northampton Edward Elgar Publishing 2022, 2022
Series:Research handbooks in business and management series
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Collection: Edward Elgar eBooks Collection Business & Economics - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Includes bibliographical references and index
  • 8. The underappreciated role of line managers in human resource management / Joon Young Kim and Rebecca R. Kehoe
  • 9. Line manager capabilities and human resource practice implementation / David M. Sikora
  • 10. The allocation of hrm responsibilities to line managers: Where is it most likely to happen? / Michael Brookes and Chris Brewster
  • 11. Line managers in the public sector / Eva Knies, Adelien Decramer and Mieke Audenaert
  • 12. Hrm in small firms: Owner-managers as line managers / Carol Atkinson, Ben Lupton and Charles Dahwa
  • 13. The debateable leadership role of frontline managers / Keith Townsend, Ashlea Troth and Rebecca Loudoun
  • 14. Line managers' empowering leadership and employees' task i-deals: An explanation from self-determination theory / Elise Marescaux, Anja Van den Broeck and Sophie De Winne
  • 15. Global talent management: The central role of line managers throughout the organisation in shaping and implementing effective gtm / Karin A. King
  • 16. Line management and the resolution of workplace conflict in the uk / Richard Saundry, Virginia Fisher and Sue Kinsey
  • 17. Almost at the top, but not quite: Senior management's sources of power and their influence on hrm / Atieh Mirfakhar, Jordi Trullen, and Mireia Valverde
  • 18. The role of line managers in the implementation of work adjustment practices for chronically ill employees: A qualitative study / Silvia Profili, Alessia Sammarra, Laura Innocenti, and Anna C. Bos-Nehles
  • 19. Mental disability disclosure in the workplace: The role of line managers / Rina Hastuti and Andrew R. Timming
  • 20. Line management in emergency services occupations: Exploring personal challenges and organizational change in a uniformed culture / Joanne Mildenhall and Leo McCann
  • Part III. Future directions in line management research
  • 21. The future of work: Implications for the frontline manager's role in hr implementation / Kathy Monks and Edel Conway
  • 22. The role of line managers in the implementation of digitalization / Violetta Khoreva, Anna Bos-Nehles and Sari Salojärvi
  • 23. Reconceptualizing the hrm role of the line manager in the age of artificial intelligence / Ewold Drent, Maarten Renkema and Anna Bos-Nehles
  • 24. Line managers and the gig economy: An oxymoron? Paradox navigation in online labor platform contexts / Jeroen Meijerink, Philip Rogiers and Anne Keegan
  • Index
  • Contents: 1. Line managers in human resource management: Theory, analysis and new developments / Keith Townsend, Anna Bos-Nehles and Kaifeng Jiang
  • Part I. Theories in line management research
  • 2. A systems theory perspective on the frontline manager role / Brian Harney and Qian Yi Lee
  • 3. Fitting the line: A review of person‒environment fit theory in line manager research / Adam Robertson and Jennifer Chelsea Veres
  • 4. Line managers, role theory and hrm / Samantha Evans
  • 5. Frontline managers and human resource management: A social exchange theory perspective / Anindita Roy Bannya and Hugh T.J. Bainbridge
  • 6. Line managers and hrm: A relational approach to paradox / Julia Brandl, Anne Keegan and Ina Aust
  • 7. The role of line managers in the formation of employees' hr attributions / Rebecca Hewett and Amanda Shantz
  • Part II. Topics in line management research