Human Resource Management: Gaining a Competitive Advantage - Softcover

Noe, Raymond Andrew; Etc.; Hollenbeck, John; Wright, Patrick; Gerhart, Barry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071145656 ISBN 13: 9780071145657

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (ISE Editions), 1996

Synopsis

This text argues that effective management of human resources is necessary to gain a competitive advantage and outlines the four challenges faced by companies: the global, quality, social and the high performance work practices challenges. Examples in each chapter show how companies have successfully dealt with these challenges and provide the technical background needed to be a successful HR professional. This book features: recent academic research, best practices and company examples; the methods used to determine the effectiveness of the HR function; coverage of trends-in-work design and downsizing and use of contingent employees; and identification of Internet and World Wide Web sites relating to HR practices.

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The authors have reduced the number of chapters from 19 to 16 to provide comprehensive but succinct coverage of HRM topics.
A new chapter (10), Employee Separation and Retention, covers effective HR practices for motivating and retaining employees, a critical issue in modern human resource management. Because today's workforce tends to change companies much more frequently than they did in years past, many companies make it a strategic priority to keep experienced employees.
A new chapter, titled Managing the HR Function, concludes the text. This chapter discusses how HR practices can be integrated to help the company gain a competitive advantage. The chapter also discusses what state-of-the-art HR functions do and how they contribute to the company's business goals. In short, it provides a strategic overview of the first 15 chapters.
End-of Chapter Business Week Cases: Each chapter concludes with a case based on Business Week. These cases are based on actual human resource or people issues that companies have faced. There's also a Business Week edition (0072340282) to complement this important new feature.
The implications of technology for HRM practices are discussed in each chapter. HRM, like all areas of business, has been strongly impacted by the ever increasing use of technology in the workplace. Each functional area of HRM - staffing, training and development, and compensation - faces technology challenges such as email privacy, growth of internet use, computerized personnel files, pay-for-performance systems, and technologies to accommodate disabled workers.
Updated chapter openings and examples are based on best practices of specific real-world companies.
Updated Boxed Features Competing in Global; Competing Through Meeting Stakeholders Needs and Competing Through High-Performance Work Systems enhance the relevant and real-world quality of this leading textbook.
Strategic issues with regard to HR are introduced early in the text and have been integrated throughout; this key distinguishing feature is important because it relates sound HR functioning to overall firm value.
Text has been updated to include most recent academic research as well as the best real company practices and examples.
Internet sites related to HR practices are identified throughout the text

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (ISE Editions)
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0071145656
• ISBN 13: 9780071145657
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 704