Abstract:
More than 30 years after the concept of strategic human resource management first
started to be adopted in the UK, IES and CIPD are undertaking a joint piece of research
into the contemporary state of human resource management and people management
strategies in the UK. This literature review is the first output from the research, and uses
academic and ‘grey’ research and sources to chart the evolution of the concept, its
meaning and its practical application over that timescale.
