Human Resource Management: A Concise Introduction - Softcover

Rawlings, Marjorie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 113700939X ISBN 13: 9781137009395

Publisher: C. Scribner's Sons, 1938

Synopsis

This lively and refreshingly succinct textbook covers not only all the core areas of the subject, from recruitment to managing rewards, but also focuses on helping students to develop the practical skills they will need to succeed in both their academic studies and future career. The authors, highly respected in their field, have drawn on their wealth of academic and industry experience to produce an accessible and captivating text that covers contemporary issues such as equality, diversity and corporate social responsibility. Important topics are supported by real-world case studies with international relevance and based on organizations such as Google, CityJet and BP. 
This is a core textbook designed to cater for first and second year undergraduate students studying Human Resource Management modules on Business and Management degrees. The book would also be an ideal core or supplementary text on specialist HRM modules at postgraduate level or on MBA programmes.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Having an understanding of people issues in the workplace is at the heart of human resource management and is relevant not only to future HR managers, but to all employers and employees. Human resource management: a concise introduction is a lively and refreshingly succinct textbook which not only covers all the core areas of the subject, from recruitment to managing rewards, but focuses on helping you develop the practical skills you will need to succeed in your HRM course and into your future career. It does this through:

- a specially-written skills development section, providing guidance on giving presentations, managing your time and persuading and influencing in the workplace
- Spotlight on Skills features which present business scenarios and ask you to diagnose problems and formulate solutions, then watch video interviews with HR professionals from organizations such as Google where they outline how they would approach each situation
- Building Your Skills boxes which encourage you to put yourself in the shoes of a line manager and think about a variety of HRM issues
- a chapter on career development discussing the implications of contemporary career models for individuals and organizations and outlining the role of the HRM function in facilitating career management

This interactive textbook also includes Active Case Studies, HRM in the News boxes and a range of international examples to demonstrate HRM theory at work in the real world of business, and chapters on contemporary topics such as equality, diversity and corporate social responsibility, highlighting how they impact on the HRM function.

About the Author

RONAN CARBERY is Lecturer in HRM at the Department of Personnel and Employment Relations of the Kemmy Business School at the University of Limerick, Ireland. He is also associate editor of the European Journal of Training and Development.
CHRISTINE CROSS is Lecturer in OB and HRM in the Kemmy Business School at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Prior to this, she worked in a number of multinational organizations in both management and HRM roles.

Edition details

• Publisher: C. Scribner's Sons
• Publication date: 1938
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 113700939X
• ISBN 13: 9781137009395
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 428