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This fourth edition of "Human Resources and Personnel Management" continues to provide comprehensive coverage of the essential topics in a readable and understandable format. The book features numerous vignettes based on actual organizations and events that are designed to bring conceptual material to life. The coverage of legal issues has been thoroughly revised to reflect the significant developments of the early 90s. This new edition is further distinguished by the inclusion of vital contemporary issues such as cultural diversity, ethics, globalization and the impact of human resource management on corporate strategy. The book takes a progressive approach by linking contributions of human resources to corporate strategy; features a wealth of real-life vignettes that provide applications-orientated examples; expands upon the increased globalization of organizations; and offers explanations of the human resource department's role in dealing with employees.
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Practical, applications-oriented approach with further expansion of real-life examples drawn from well-known companies throughout the world.
Emphasis on student learning reinforced by a wealth of in-text pedagogical aids: part openers, chapter objectives, opening examples, chapter quotes, chapter summaries, key terms, chapter incidents, glossary.
Explains the HRM department's role in dealing with employees and takes a progressive approach that links contributions of the HRM department to corporate strategy
Widely regarded as one of the highest-quality, most readable, and student-friendly HRM textbooks.
Updated throughout with focus on international implications of HRM, workforce diversity issues, incentive compensation trends, and critical new legislation (the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, updated on EEOC and Americans with Disabilities Act, and recent court decisions).
Woven throughout text is an increased emphasis on diversity and international issues and implications.
Greater attention paid to the HRM department's strategic role as a source of competitive advantage.
Dozens of new, named company examples.
More than 90% of the review and discussion questions, chapter incidents and exercises, learning objectives, and chapter-opening quotations are new.
New topic coverage includes health care costs, incentive-based pay, more on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, more on Americans with Disabilities Act, international succession planning, and equal employment laws.
Condensed employee relations topics from two chapters to one (ch. 17 replaces old chs. 15 and 16).
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- PublisherMcGraw-Hill Inc.,US
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0070695512
- ISBN 13 9780070695511
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number4
- Number of pages678
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Human Resources and Personnel Management (Mcgraw-Hill Series in Management)
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