This book allows the student to apply personnel theories and research findings to real-life situations. Current and controversial cases are included, such as drug testing, mergers, smoking in the work place, strategic human resource issues and employment at will. The cases cover both large and small organizations, from the public and private sector. "Incidents", or mini cases are used to raise questions around an issue, without seeking a definite answer, and "skill builders" are used to develop specific technical skills. The exercises include role playing, solving personnel problems, and others that apply to specific theories of personnel practices. Most can be completed in fifty minutes. Group projects/term assignments are included at the back of the book. This book should be of interest to degree and diploma students on introductory courses in personnel and human resource management in departments of management and business studies.
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Stella M. Nkomo serves as professor in the Department of Human Resource Management at the University of Pretoria. She is the former chair of the Department of Management at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte, North Carolina. She holds a Ph.D. in business administration from the University of Massachusetts. Dr. Nkomo is a former Scholar-in-Residence at the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College and Harvard University. Dr. Nkomo's nationally recognized work on race and gender in organizations, managing diversity, leading change, and human resource management appears in numerous journals, edited volumes, and magazines. She has served on the editorial board of several management journals, including the Academy of Management Review; Organization; British Journal of Management; the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal; Journal of Managerial Psychology; Management Communication Quarterly; Work and Occupations; and the Journal of Management Education. She has written three successful books and is a former member of the executive board of the Human Resource Management Division of the Academy of Management. Most recently, she served as a member of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Management. Dr. Nkomo has received numerous honors, including the Gender and Diversity in Organization Division Sage Scholarly Contributions Award in 2009. She received the Belk College of Business Research Excellence Award and the Bank of America Teaching Excellence Award during her tenure at the University of North Carolina. Dr. Nkomo also served on the Board of Governors of the Center for Creative Leadership. At the University of South Africa she received three awards for significant contributions to research.
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