The central focus of Human Resource Management: The New Agenda is the changing nature, context and role of human resource management. Based on leading-edge input from a combination of academics, senior practitioners and influential policy makers, this innovative new book helps the reader to understand the key human resource issues in a rapidly changing organisational environment. Potential challenges of the first are set within their historical context, while considering topical issues such as the impact of psychological contracts and changes in the European labour market.