Managing Human Resources: Productivity, Quality of Work Life, Profits - Hardcover

Cascio, Wayne F.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0070111545 ISBN 13: 9780070111547

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US, 1994

Synopsis

This text gives in-depth coverage of major HRM topics, and discusses the strategic use of human resource management function with emphasis on cost/benefit aspects of HR practice. Current examples are given to support the arguments, focusing upon real people in real organizations. A different split-sequential case starts each chapter - events lead to a climax, the case stops and the reader is asked to predict the outcome; conclusions are presented at the end of each chapter. New to this edition is a chapter on workplace diversity, with examples from Xerox, Pacific Bell, J.C. Penny and other companies. There is also coverage of the legal environment, which includes changes in law, court rulings, and implications for HR practice, such as job analysis under the Americans with Disabilities Act. In addition, "ethical dilemma" sections in each chapter require students to choose a course of action and defend their reasons for doing so.

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From the Publisher:

The impact of technology and the Internet are interlaced throughout many chapters, especially in the chapters on recruitment, staffing, and career development.
Chapter 2, The Financial Impact of Human Resource Management Activities, receives earlier and deeper treatment than in previous editions because of its importance to overall firm value
Key terms are highlighted throughout the text and listed at the end of each chapter in order to help students retain the material.
Due to the complexity of the material, Chapters 13 and 14 have been reorganized to distinguish more clearly between issues that are more dependent on a unionized work environment and those that are not specific to union or non-union work places.
The text Website includes URLs and links to companies mentioned throughout the book so that students can easily do further research on these companies.
Research-based, application-oriented Ethical Dilemma boxes will be retained to provide students with real world situations in HRM.
International coverage is both integrated throughout the chapters where appropriate and in a separate capstone chapter (16), which gives the students deeper insight into key international HRM issues.

About the Author:

Wayne F. Cascio earned his B.A. degree from Holy Cross College in 1968, his M.A. degree from Emory University in 1969, and his Ph.D. in industrial/organizational psychology from the University of Rochester in 1973. Since that time he has taught at Florida International University, the University of California/ Berkeley, and the University of Colorado/Denver, where he is at present Professor of Management. He has served president both of the Human Resources Division of the Academy of Management and of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. In addition to hosting an annual week-long conference on international human resource management at the University of Colorado, Professor Cascio has consulted on five continents with a wide variety of organizations in both the public and private sectors on HR matters. He also periodically testifies as an expert witness in employment discrimination cases. Professor Cascio is an active researcher and is the author or editor of five books on human resources management.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0070111545
• ISBN 13: 9780070111547
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 704