Research handbook on line managers / edited by Keith Townsend, Anna Bos-Nehles and Kaifeng Jiang.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Townsend, Keith, editor.

Bos-Nehles, Anna, editor.

Jiang, Kaifeng, editor.

Series:

Research handbooks in business and management series.

Research handbooks in business and management series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle managers.

Middle managers--Research.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (424 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, England ; Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2022]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright

Contents

Contributors

1. Line managers in human resource management: theory, analysis and new developments

PART I THEORIES IN LINE MANAGEMENT RESEARCH

2. A systems theory perspective on the frontline manager role

3. Fitting the line: a review of person‒environment fit theory in line manager research

4. Line managers, role theory and HRM

5. Frontline managers and human resource management: a social exchange theory perspective

6. Line managers and HRM: a relational approach to paradox

7. The role of line managers in the formation of employees' HR attributions

PART II TOPICS IN LINE MANAGEMENT RESEARCH

8. The underappreciated role of line managers in human resource management

9. Line manager capabilities and human resource practice implementation

10. The allocation of HRM responsibilities to line managers: where is it most likely to happen?

11. Line managers in the public sector

12. HRM in small firms: owner-managers as line managers

13. The debateable leadership role of frontline managers

14. Line managers' empowering leadership and employees' task i-deals: an explanation from self-determination theory

15. Global talent management: the central role of line managers throughout the organisation in shaping and implementing effective GTM

16. Line management and the resolution of workplace conflict in the UK

17. Almost at the top, but not quite: senior management's sources of power and their influence on HRM

18. The role of line managers in the implementation of work adjustment practices for chronically ill employees: a qualitative study

19. Mental disability disclosure in the workplace: the role of line managers

20. Line management in emergency services occupations: exploring personal challenges and organizational change in a uniformed culture.

PART III FUTURE DIRECTIONS IN LINE MANAGEMENT RESEARCH

21. The future of work: implications for the frontline manager's role in HR implementation

22. The role of line managers in the implementation of digitalization

23. Reconceptualizing the HRM role of the line manager in the age of artificial intelligence

24. Line managers and the gig economy: an oxymoron? Paradox navigation in online labor platform contexts

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Townsend, Keith Research Handbook on Line Managers

ISBN:

1-83910-274-8