Human Resource Management: The Need for Theory and Diversity

Wolfgang Weber and Ruediger Kabst
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Wolfgang Weber: University of Paderborn
Ruediger Kabst: University of Paderborn, Faculty of Business Administration, Economics, and Business Computing

management revue - Socio-Economic Studies, 2004, vol. 15, issue 2, 171-177

Abstract: Human Resource Management as an academic discipline needs to be theoretically grounded, i.e. it requires support through theories, theory-driven empirical research and critiques. In doing so, different theoretical perspectives are addressed suggesting a problem-orientated theory selection which leads inevitably to theoretical diversity.

Keywords: Human Resource Management; Systems Theory; Work and Organizational Psychology; Behavioral Approach; Personnel Economics; Political Economy; Rational Choice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F23 J53 M10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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