Product Description

This brief yet lucid ten-chapter book provides practicing managers with a review of central human resource management concepts and techniques in a highly readable and understandable format. Managing Human Resources Today, Managing Equal Opportunity and Diversity, Recruitment and Selection, Personnel Planning and Recruitment, Testing and Selecting Employees, Training and Developing Employees, Performance Management and Appraisal, Compensating Employees, and Managing Employee Relations. For use as a reference by those in human resource management.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #221558 in Books
• Published on: 2005-12-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Review

"I find this text one of the best for my students because it focuses on key issues facing managers in business, not necessarily human resource managers. Operating on the assumption that all managers and supervisors will engage in selecting, training, evaluating, and compensating employees, the text is particularly valuable as a core course for business administration students. Furthermore, this foundation text explains to students the overall responsibilities of human resource managers. As a result, students interested in the discipline are better able to decide whether that field of study is best for their skills, abilities, and interest." — Susan Gardner, California State University, Chico

"The most distinctive characteristic of this text is how it pares down the information into a very readable form without sacrificing content or reasonable depth." — Thomas Kanick, Broome Community College

From the Back Cover
This book offers select, condensed, and thoroughly updated coverage rewritten from the authors' best-selling “big” book (I>Human Resource Management, 8/E. Chapter topics include managing human resources today, managing equal opportunity and diversity, personnel planning and recruitment, testing and selecting employees, training and developing employees, appraising performance, compensating employees, managing labor relations and collective bargaining, managing careers and fair treatment, and protecting safety and health. For use in organizations' brief training courses on executive development.

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A Framework for Human Resource Management provides students and practicing managers with a brief and a lucid review of essential HR management concepts and techniques in a highly readable and understandable form. As expected, it has been used successfully in several situations: in modularized undergraduate and graduate courses that necessarily blend several topics (such as management and HR, or HR and OB); in college courses (such as those offered in quarters or shortened semesters) in which the professor wants a relatively brief treatment of HR; in more specialized HR courses such as "HR in high-technology companies"; and by practicing managers who want to update their HR skills with a brief and intensive review of the subject. The book's basic mission is to provide readers with a concise review of HR's core concepts and techniques, supported, for those who want it, by a complete multimedia and Internet-based learning package. Because all managers have personnel-related responsibilities, this book is aimed at all students of management, not just those who will someday be human resource managers.

The chapter titles are unchanged from the successful previous edition, but a number of other changes have been made. The research and topics throughout all chapters have, of course, been updated to reflect the latest findings and thinking in the HR field, and, in addition, a number of topics have been expanded in response to reviewer suggestions. Expanded coverage includes employment at will and dot-com company pay, for instance. Additional examples (including more small-business and global examples) have been added throughout the text. Because of the rapid deployment of computerized techniques and information technology in HR, many more examples of HR technology, and Web-based HR are integrated throughout all chapters. Modern managers are constantly coping with an implementing change, and so the general topic of change and, specifically, examples of how HR management concepts and techniques can be useful in managing change have also been expanded.

I am, as usual, indebted to a great many people for their assistance and support in creating this book. At Prentice Hall, Natalie E. Anderson, editor-in-chief, first proposed this book to me, and was helpful in developing its basic content and theme. Melissa Steffens, managing editor, was very helpful in working with me as the writing progressed, and Shannon Moore, marketing manager, enthusiastically supported the project, provided important input from potential adopters, and gave me much-needed input and support. It is safe to say that I would not have even considered writing this book without the ongoing support and advice that I have always received from the professionals in Prentice Hall's sales representative organization. I appreciate my wife, Claudia, tolerating the many evening and weekend hours that I had to spend writing this book, and last, but by no means least, I appreciate the support and lessons learned from my son, Derek.

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