Human Resource Management, 9th edition Front Cover

Human Resource Management, 9th edition

Description

For three decades, this text has been the leading introduction to HRM for students at all levels, including those on CIPD-accredited courses. It is renowned for its readable and engaging style making studying more efficient. Comprehensively covering all major areas of the field, this edition has been updated with the issues and debates facing HRM today. Its key features include: * case studies that contextualise theory in well known organisations such as Rolls Royce, McDonald’s and the BBC World Service * integrated activity and discussion boxes to encourage deeper thinking and understanding of each chapter * skills content to help develop the specific employability skills necessary for a successful HR practitioner.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Human resource management in changing times
Chapter 1 The nature of human resource management
Chapter 2 The Global context for human resource management
Chapter 3 Strategic human resource management
Chapter 4 Workforce planning and metrics

Part 2 Resourcing: getting people in the right places to do the right things
Chapter 5 Organisation design and flexibility
Chapter 6 recruitment
Chapter 7 Selection methods and decisions
Chapter 8 Engaging and retaining people
Chapter 9 Ending the contract

Part 3 Performance: success through individual and collective achievement
Chapter 10 Employee performance management
Chapter 11 Leadership
Chapter 12 Managing attendance and absence

Part 4 Development
Chapter 13 Organisational change and development
Chapter 14 The context of employee learing and development
Chapter 15 Learning and development
Chapter 16 Talent and career development

Part 5 Employee relations
Chapter 17 Employee voice
Chapter 18 The legal framework of work
Chapter 19 Equal Opportunities and diversity
Chapter 20 Girevance and discipline

Part 6 Reward: the contract for payment
Chapter 21 Setting pay
Chapter 22 Incentives
Chapter 23 Pensions and benefits

Part 7 Contemporary issues
Chapter 24 Ethics and corporate social responsibility
Chapter 25 Managing the human resource function
Chapter 26 Health and well-being
Chapter 27 The international dimension

Part 8 Selected human resource skills
Chapter 28 Skills set 1: Face-to-face and other communication skills
Chapter 29 Skills set 2: Skills for analysis and decision making

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