Innovation and HRM: Absences and politics |
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| Authors: | Michael Zanko Richard Badham Paul Couchman Maren Schubert |
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| Affiliation: | 1. School of Management and Marketing, University of Wollongong , Australia mzanko@uow.edu.au;3. Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Macquarie University , Australia;4. Department of Management , Griffith University , Australia;5. Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG , Germany |
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| Abstract: | 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. |
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| Keywords: | concurrent engineering HRM innovation politics power |
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