Human Resource Management - Softcover

Price, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1473728355 ISBN 13: 9781473728356

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2011

Synopsis

Many students taking human resource management (HRM) courses will become general, rather than personnel, managers and yet many textbooks are written with the needs of personnel specialists in mind. This book, however, focuses on general business performance rather than the specialism itself and should be of interest to students taking introductory HRM or personnel courses.

About this title

From the Author:

This book is intended to provide a comprehensive account of the critical issues in Human Resource Management (HRM), taking the reader from an introductory level to a relatively sophisticated understanding of an increasingly important business topic. We will see that there is no universal agreement on the meaning of HRM. In fact, there are varying and contradictory models. Yet they embody common elements that distinguish them from previous approaches to managing people – specifically, personnel management. The book takes a distinctive approach, locating the subject of human resource management and its various perspectives within a business context. We recognize that readers will come from a variety of backgrounds, that some will become HR specialists but that many are interested in the relationship between human resource management and other business functions. This is not a ‘cookbook’ of best practices: it is firmly focused on human resource management in the real world.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1473728355
• ISBN 13: 9781473728356
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 584