Hrm Reality: Putting Competence in Context - Softcover

9780201433906: Hrm Reality: Putting Competence in Context

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0201433907 ISBN 13: 9780201433906

Publisher: Pearson College Div, 2001

HRM Reality provides readers with a reality based perspective on the practice of human resource management. The readings within provide current and classic reports of applications of HR in the workplace. Focuses on such topics as Developing Effectiveness in HR, Creating a Productive Work Environment, Fostering Employee-Management Relations, Implementing Compensation and Benefits, and Dealing with Diversity and Discrimination. For line managers and human resources professionals.

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About the Author:

Peter J. Frost is a co-author of the "Reality" series of monographs on management: Organizational Reality, Managerial Reality, and HRM Reality. He has published two books on organizational culture and several articles on leadership and has edited a series of works on academic life, most recently two books: Rhythms of Academic Life and Researchers Hooked on Teaching. His most recent writing has been on compassion (published in the Journal of Management Inquiry) and on the management of pain in organizations (published in the Harvard Business Review). He has served as a senior editor for Organization Science and as Executive Director of the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Management and has received the Academy's Distinguished Educator Award. Professor Frost currently holds the Edgar F Kaiser Chair in Organizational Behavior in the Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration at the University of British Columbia.

Walter R. Nord got his Ph.D. in Psychology at Washington University. He has published widely in scholarly journals and edited/authored a number of books. His recent books include: The Meanings of Occupational Work (with A. Brief), Implementing Routine and Radical Innovations (with S. Tucker), Organizational Reality: Reports from the Firing Line and Managerial Reality (with P Frost and V Mitchell), and Resistance and Power in Organizations (with J. Jermier and D. Knights). Dr. Nord is a recent past book review editor for the Academy of Management Review and is currently a member of the editorial boards of AMR and Organization. He has recently co-edited the Handbook of Organization Studies (with S. Clegg and C. Hardy), which received the 1997 George Terry Award. He is currently a Professor of Management at the University of Florida and is working on developing an "agnostic philosophical" framework for organization studies.

Linda A. Krefting got her Ph.D. in Industrial Relations at the University of Minnesota. She has done research in such areas as human resource policies and practices, equal employment opportunity, and compensation for publications such as Industrial Relations, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management Inquiry, and Journal of Vocational Behavior, among others. Her professional affiliations include the Academy of Management and the Society for Human Resource Management. She is currently an Associate Professor at the College of Business Administration at Texas Tech University and teaches survey and advanced courses in human resource management and organizational behavior.

For more than 20 years we have been concerned with helping business students connect the descriptive and normative dimensions they study in their textbooks with their experiences. The success of our first effort in this direction, Organizational Reality: Reports From the Firing Line (now in its 4th edition) suggested other instructors had the same concern. That book's reception in the market went far beyond our original intention as it attracted attention from instructors of communication and creative writing. Our second attempt, Managerial Reality, had similar aims but was directed to students of management; it was also well received as a supplement to traditional, more normative approaches to the subject. Accordingly, when we were asked to prepare the first edition of this book, we welcomed the opportunity to provide a teaching tool that contained vivid illustrations of human resource management's past, present, and future. In that book as well as in this second edition, we emphasized the context within which the practice of HRM takes place. Indeed, it is the changing context that has required us to produce the current edition so that we can offer materials that reflect contemporary reality. These changes have been so great that there are no selections in this edition that were also in the first edition. However, the structure and, for the most part, the headings of the first edition remained useful. As before, we believe our approach provides students with materials that center on reality rather than primarily conceptual aspects of HRM, thereby providing students with an interesting and relevant perspective that conventional textbooks do not.

We are indebted to the many authors whose reporting and insights shaped this book. As the reader will note, we have drawn from a broad spectrum of sources in our effort to portray the reality of human resource management. We also acknowledge with sincere thanks the administrative support of Melissa Steffens, David Shafer, and Michael Campbell of Prentice Hall. We are grateful to Cynthia Ree and Graham Brown of the Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration at UBC and Norma Walker at USF for their excellent secretarial services. We want to give special thanks to Cynthia Cohen and Charles Michaels for preparing original articles for this volume.

Finally, we owe a very special debt to three scholars: Thomas Mahoney, Vance Mitchell, and Lawrence K. Williams to whom we dedicate this book. Professors Mahoney and Williams were instructors of one or more of us when we first began our graduate studies. Their scholarship and teaching skills were a major reason we continued to work in this area. Professor Mitchell is a long-time colleague whose intellect and enthusiasm for learning and teaching played a central role in shaping our work along the reality-centered course that is reflected in this and the related books we have published. Indeed we have been most fortunate to have had these people in our lives.

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