Emerging issues in human resources management: an analysis of academic production

Abstract

This study shows outcomes from a research about national and international academic production about eight emergent human resource themes: strategic human resource management, diversity management, talent management, international human resource management, organizational learning, social responsibility, generation management, and kinds of flexible job. This group of themes were defined by a previous bibliography revision. This revision included studies and researches published at the last five years about human resource trends at important journals and events. The outcomes were combined with specialist opinions. The analysis identified that international human resource management, strategic human resource management, organizational learning, diversity management were the most common themes. The study also identified that under the methological point of view, the bigger part of the researches were exploratory; the most common methological studies profile were theoretical and empirical and the quantitative approach was predominant.