HUMAN RESOURCE/LABOR RELATIONS: A PRIMER - Softcover

Hopkins, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 059538756X ISBN 13: 9780595387564

Publisher: iUniverse, 2006

Synopsis

In today's world economy Human Resource Professionals, Managers and Supervisors are required to make decisions faster and provide rapid turnaround of information regarding employees. Information will come from the many stakeholders in the organization, such as customers, employees, unions and governmental agencies, all this requiring these individuals to collect and distill the salient points quickly in order to reinforce employee behavior. Human Resource Professionals, Managers and Supervisors must also provide employees with the proper information required of them to accomplish their assigned tasks. Today's Human Resource Professionals, Managers and Supervisors are therefore required to be knowledgeable of the laws that affect human resource and/or labor management regardless of the her/his degree of experience in human resource matters. This knowledge forms the structure that they must operate within when dealing with the employees in their care.

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About the Author

James H. (Jim) Hopkins received a Bachelors Degree in Economics from the University of Nebraska at Omaha, did Graduate Studies in Economics at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and received a Juris Doctorate from the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma Washington. Mr. Hopkins has thirty-five plus years of experience in the field of Employer/Employee Relations, this as a Human Resource Professional and as a practicing Attorney. Mr. Hopkins Lectures on employment law and other business related topics at Seattle Pacific University, Bellevue Community College and Edmonds Community College, all in the greater Seattle area. He has written numerous articles and publications in the area of human resources.

Edition details

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 059538756X
• ISBN 13: 9780595387564
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 82