Human Resource Management: People, Data, and Analytics

Bauer, Talya; Erdogan, Berrin; Caughlin, David; Truxillo, Donald

ISBN 10: 1544364091 ISBN 13: 9781544364094

Publisher: Sage Pubns, 2019

Synopsis

Human resources is rapidly evolving into a data-rich field but with big data comes big decisions. The best companies understand how to use data to make strategic workforce decisions and gain significant competitive advantage. 

Human Resource Management: People, Data, and Analytics by Talya Bauer, Berrin Erdogan, David Caughlin, and Donald Truxillo introduces students to the fundamentals of talent management with integrated coverage of data analytics and how they can be used to inform and support decisions about people in an organization. Features tied to SHRM competencies and data exercises give readers hands-on opportunities to practice the analytical and decision-making skills they need to excel in today’s job market. Engaging examples illustrate key HRM concepts and theories, which brings many traditional HRM topics concepts to life. Whether your students are future managers or future HR professionals, they will learn best practices for managing talent across the lifecycle in the changing workplace. 

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Review

"The text offers useful and appropriate examples of the use of analytics in HRM." --Gwendolyn M. Combs

"An interesting and novel approach to teaching HRM." --Michael W. Hill

"Excellent data-driven text." --Kevin J. Hurt

"[This] is a good, comprehensive Human Resource Management textbook for the Undergraduate level or for Graduate students with a concentration in HR." --Patricia A. Ippoliti

"A state-of-the-art textbook on HRM." --Robert W. Halliman

"This textbook is an all-encompassing book that covers in detail, the critical performance areas of human resource management and how information technology is used for decision making and in creating a competitive advantage." --Benjamin B. Yumol

"[Human Resource Management] is a well written, well organized textbook with current cases taken from today's headlines, laid out in an instructor and student friendly way. If our college wants to emphasize data driven analytical HRM strategic decision making, this is the perfect introductory text." --Otha Carlton Hawkins

"With the recent changes to the HR field as a whole to be a more integrated discipline, Bauer et al's text does a spectacular job of expanding upon core content from organizational behavior, business law, business analytics, leadership, and management and frames that content in an HR lens...this text provides in-depth integration of those topics fused with current case studies and references to popular culture." --Lou L. Sabina

"A refreshing approach to HRM that highlights the importance of HRM in maintaining and building the bottom line for companies and enhancing work environments."--Robert W. Halliman

"The practice and science of HR come together!"--Joseph Simon

About the Author

Talya Bauer (PhD, Purdue University) works at the School of Business at Portland State University and serves as the area director for the Human Resource Management program. She is an award-winning teacher and was awarded the Innovation in Teaching Award from the HR Division of the Academy of Management. She teaches HR analytics, introduction to HRM, training and development, and negotiations courses and was recognized by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) with the Distinguished Teacher Award. She conducts research about relationships at work. More specifically, she works in research areas across the employee life cycle including recruitment and selection, new employee onboarding, and coworker and leader relationships which have resulted in dozens of research grants, journal publications, and book chapters. She has acted as a consultant for dozens of government, Fortune 1,000, and start-up organizations. She has been quoted and her work has been covered in The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, The Washington Post, Business Week, Talent Management, USA Today, as well as appearing on NPR's All Things Considered. She has been a Visiting Professor in France, Spain, and at Google, Inc. Talya is involved in professional organizations and conferences at the national level such as serving on the Human Resource Management Executive Committee of the Academy of Management and as SIOP president. She has received several SHRM research grants and wrote a SHRM Professional Practices "Onboarding" paper. She is the former Editor of Journal of Management and is on the editorial boards for the Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, and Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practices. She has co-authored multiple textbooks including Organizational Behavior, Principles of Management, and Psychology and Work: Introduction to Industrial and Organizational Psychology. She is a Fellow of SIOP, APA, IAAP, and APS.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sage Pubns
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1544364091
• ISBN 13: 9781544364094
• Binding: Loose Leaf
• Number of pages: 576