HRM practice01
HRM foundations: balancing purpose, people and work
Understand HRM as a system of choices about work, relationships and capability, with responsibilities beyond short-term performance.
ADM HR3 min
HRM / subject guide
HRM foundations & ethics
Understand the purpose of HRM, the capabilities people bring and the responsibilities that shape fair decisions.
A suggested reading route
From understanding to practice.
Begin with the first guide, or choose the question you are working on. Each guide connects explanation, application, limitations and further reading.
HRM practice02
Human capital: understanding capability without pricing people
Connect knowledge, skills and relationships to organisational capability while keeping the limits of workforce metrics in view.
ADM HR2 min
HRM practice03
Ethics in HR: making a decision you can explain
A practical way to examine fairness, competing interests and responsibility before a difficult people decision.
ADM HR3 min
Stakeholders & consequences04
The Harvard HRM framework
Connect people-policy choices with stakeholder interests and their longer-term effects on work, organisations and society.
Michael Beer, Bert Spector, Paul Lawrence, D. Quinn Mills4 min
People analytics · models & decisions05
The HR value chain & causal chain
Connect HR investment with employee, operational and business outcomes—and test the links.
David E. Guest6 min
People analytics · models & decisions06
Human capital ROI: formula and interpretation
Calculate a broad workforce-cost ratio and understand why it is not an individual employee valuation.
Workforce financial-metrics tradition associated with Jac Fitz-enz5 min
Where this subject grows next
This is a foundation, not complete coverage of every handbook chapter.
- Sustainable HRM and social responsibility cases
- Future-of-work scenarios