Human Resource Management, 2nd Edition

• Written by a wide range of subject experts in the field, this text offers an accessible, engaging, and academically rigorous approach, which ensures students have a firm grasp of key themes vital to HRM in contemporary business organizations.
• Accompanied by a DVD for adopting lecturers, featuring interviews with HRM practitioners from a variety of organizations. The DVD is referenced within the chapters while exercises to accompany the DVD are supplied online, providing a ready-made multi-media teaching package.
• Offers a critical interpretation where relevant, avoiding the tendency of many texts in this area either to be over-prescriptive or lacking sufficient depth.
• Coverage includes key areas of contemporary HRM, such as talent management and resolving workplace conflict.
• Every chapter contains a variety of high quality pedagogical features, including end-of-section summaries, assignment and discussion questions, and practitioner perspectives, designed to help students test and develop their knowledge.
• A fully integrated Online Resource Centre accompanies the text providing students with additional support and study tools, including video links to relevant external HRM content.

New to this edition

• Case material has been fully revised and updated throughout to reflect the social, political and legal changes in HRM since the previous edition published in 2009.
• New chapter on Utilizing Human Resources in Organizations, including discussion of talent management.
• New material on resolving workplace conflict has been added to chapter 13.
• New international focus boxes and skills exercise boxes have been added to every chapter, to help students contextualise HRM in a global context and consolidate their learning through real-world examples.

This book provides a concise, engaging, and accessible introduction to human resource management which is academically rigorous and appropriate for students taking courses in HRM, business studies and related areas. In addition to covering the core issues relating to human resource management, such as recruitment and selection, training and development, and reward, the book also includes material devoted to new and emerging issues, like talent management and the effective management of staff on international assignments. It features a wide range of pedagogic features designed to enhance your knowledge of human resource management issues, including boxed skills exercises and learning activities, section summaries, suggestions for further reading, assignment and discussion questions, and a guide to key concepts. 

Written by a team of experts who have extensive experience of teaching, researching, and consultancy activity, the book is an essential companion when it comes to helping you to develop your understanding of human resource management topics. This new edition features a new chapter entitled 'Utilizing human resources', covering areas such as flexibility, talent management and health and safety. Adopting lecturers receive a copy of a DVD featuring video interviews with practitioners, filmed specially for the textbook.

Readership: The text is designed for students taking a module in human resource management at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.