Agile for HR: Fine in practice, but will it work in theory?

John McMackin; Margaret Heffernan

doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrmr.2020.100791

doi.org/10.1016/j.hrmr.2020.100791

Agile for HR: Fine in practice, but will it work in theory?

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Human Resource Management Review11.40

Volume: 31, Issue: 4, Pages: 100791 - 100791

Published: Dec 1, 2021

Abstract

Agile HR is a topic of growing interest among HR professionals, reflecting pressures for greater organisational agility in response to environmental uncertainty. However, agile HR has received virtually no attention in the academic HR literature, typifying a divergence between the interests of HR practitioners and strategic HRM research, something which has been a recurring concern in recent reviews of SHRM literature. In this paper we offer a...