Human Resource Management
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Fundamentals of Human Resource Management, 9th Edition
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WileyPLUS Helps Students Reach Their Full Potential

WileyPLUS provides everything needed to create an environment where students can reach their full potential and experience the exhilaration of academic success.

Contents
PART 1 UNDERSTANDING HRM. 
PART 2 THE LEGAL AND ETHICAL CONTEXT OF HRM.
PART 3 STAFFING THE ORGANIZATION.
PART 4 TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT.
PART 5 MAINTAINING HIGH PERFORMANCE. 
PART 6 LABOR-MANAGEMENT ENVIRONMENTS.

The Handbook of Model Job Descriptions
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The Handbook of Model Job Descriptions provides hundreds of job descriptions, skills and competencies for HR professionals and managers to use and adapt when recruiting.

The Handbook of Model Job Descriptions offers a unique time-saving approach in the form of a ‘job description builder’ which allows you to select featured job elements and build a complete and well-structured job description. Divided into two parts, the first enables quick and easy assembly and personalization of any job description, across a wide range of sectors such as administration and management, finance and accountancy, and human resources. Part Two allows you to select from hundreds of job elements, such as providing care and guidance, client relations, and project management.

This edition provides online access to each job description so you can personalize them to suit your own circumstances, saving hours of valuable time.

irs Best Practice in HR
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This handbook provides HR professionals with a comprehensive desktop reference guide to best practice. It draws on new and exciting IRS research, surveys and case studies and has been written in a practical way making full use of checklists and examples. Providing best-practice guidelines from named organizations, this new handbook is designed to show you how to approach a wide range of HR and related areas. The handbook also gives you compliance material in an easy-to-use format, clarifying what the law requires.

Audience
HR Professionals & Consultants;CEO's of SME companies.

Contents
1. Filing your vacancies 2. Cost-effective selection 3. Using electronic media effectively 4. Checking candidates? backgrounds 5. Induction, training and development 6. Pay, benefits and other terms and conditions 7. Retaining the best staff 8. Employee involvement and representation 9. Equal opportunities and diversity 10. Managing performance – part one 11. Managing performance – part two 12. Attendance and absence 13. Redundancy and transfers 14. The methods that IRS uses to obtain its findings about best practice

Leadership and Management for HR Professionals
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This is a new and completely revised edition of the successful text published in 2000 entitled Core Management. The book provides excellent coverage of the CIPD syllabus for three core areas of the CIPD syllabus. New end of chapter website links are included. The text is written in an easy-to-read style and each chapter is linked to other relevant parts of the book.

Managing and Leading People
- High performance organizations; Individual differences; Leadership and motivation at work; People management;

Managing for Results
- Managerial work; Organizations and change; Customer relations; Quality and continuous improvement;

Managing in a Strategic Business Context
- The competitive environment; Corporate strategy; Globalization; Government policy; Demographic and social trends; Regulation; The technological context; Social responsibility and business ethics; Appendix 1; How the book and the CIPD standards link together; Appendix 2; Exam questions

Managing Risk: The HR Contribution

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This handbook is a one-stop guide that sets out a strategic approach for understanding and managing HR risks.
Managing Risk: The HR Contribution will enable the user to understand how managing HR risks will benefit their organisation. It will also assist the user to put into place a practical strategy for managing risks associated with employees from recruitment through to the close of the employee/employer relationship. This book will be of particular interest to organisations looking for a strategic, integrated approach linked to business risk management and corporate governance.

Ultimate Performance: Measuring Human Resources at Work
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Meeting the challenges of high-performance HR

Until 1760 ships routinely disappeared, ran aground, or sank because seafarers could not measure longitude. The cost in life and property was immense. Today, business faces a similar challenge, as the failure to measure human resources performance is just as costly and deadly to modern organizations.

Senior executives once considered HR a "soft," unavoidable cost of doing business, responsible for compensation, employee transactions, company functions, workforce problems, and legal issues. Three factors changed this perception: the significant impact of high-performance HR, the implications of poorly performing HR, and soaring HR operating expenses. These factors have led to an increased demand and focus on HR metrics.

Ultimate Performance approaches this challenge by providing clear, proven measurement solutions that will optimize the performance of people and businesses.

Hardcover
288 pages

The Future of Human Resource Management: 64 Thought Leaders Explore the Critical HR Issues of Today and Tomorrow
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Sixty-three stellar academics, consultants, and practitioners look at the future of human resources

This book presents an international panel of expert contributors who offer their views on the state of HR and what to expect in the future. Topics covered include HR as a decision science, understanding and managing people, creating and adapting organizational culture, the effects of globalization, collaborative ventures, and investing in the next generation. Like its bestselling predecessor before it, The Future of Human Resource Management offers the very best thinking on the future of HR from the most respected leaders in the field.
Hardcover
448 pages
Introduction.

Section I: Understanding and Managing People.

Section II: Invest in the Next Generation of Human Resource Professionalism.

Section III: Learn to Master and Play New Roles.

Section IV: Discern, Create, and Adapt Culture to Business Conditions.

Section V: Rethink Organizations as Capabilities, Not Structures.

Section VI: See HR as a Decision Science and Bring Discipline to It.

Section VII: Create Mutually Collaborative Ventures.

Section VIII: Responding to Social Expectations and Public Policy and the Renewed Importance of Ethics.

Section IX: Live Globally, Act Locally.

Conclusion.

HRM in Europe
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  • Offers a thorough evidence based approach drawing directly on the expertise of leading HRM scholars
  • Introduces entirely fresh analyses based on new and hitherto unpublished data
  • Provides a clear framework and structure for students, researchers and practitioners
    • The increasing number of cross-border alliances and mergers both within Europe and between Europe and other parts of the world have made it imperative for students of management to have a thorough understanding of the European context for human resource management (HRM). This book enables managers and students to become "fluent" in the many various environments, approaches and practices that exist across Europe for managing human resources.

    The text employs comprehensive comparable representative data collected longitudinally during the last decade and it also draws directly on the expertise of leading HRM scholars. Entirely fresh analyses of HRM in Europe, based on new and hitherto unpublished data are presented and this analysis is critically important for students, researchers and also for practitioners.

    The book is divided into three parts: concepts and theoretical issues , trends in relation to these issues and comparisons between individual countries, and summaries and conclusions on the issue of convergence and divergence.

    Strategic Human Resource Management
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    Strategic Human Resource Management provides unique practical guidance on implementing the complex HR business strategies that have been formulated by practitioners, academics and consultants.

    The author, Michael Armstrong, is a Companion and former Chief Examiner of the Chartered Institute of Personal Development (CIPD.

    Substantially updated, this edition includes new material which reflects important developments in HR strategies linked with those issues which affect HRM on a day to day basis including: Human capital management, corporate social responsibility, organization development, engagement and talent management. A new feature, the Strategic HR Toolkit, provides guidance on developing HR strategy through a strategic review.

    Human Resource Management for the Hospitality and Tourism Industries
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    Human Resource Management for the Hospitality and Tourism Industries takes an integrated look at HRM policies and practices in the tourism and hospitality industries. Utilising existing human resource management (HRM) theory and practice, it contextualises it to the tourism and hospitality industries by looking at the specific employment practices of these industries, such as how to manage tour reps or working in the airline industry. Author Dennis Nickson, Scottish Hotel School,University of Strathclyde

    It initially sets the scene with a broad review of the evidence of HRM practice within the tourism and hospitality industries. Having identified the broader picture, the text then begin to focus much more explicitly on a variety of HR policies and practices such as: – Recruitment and selection: the effects of ICT, skills required specific for the industry and the nature of advertising – Legislation and equal opportunities: illegal discrimination and managing diversity – Staff health and welfare: violence in the workplace, working time directives, smoking and alcohol and drug misuse – Remuneration strategies in the industry: the ?cafeteria award? approach, minimum wage and tipping Human Resource Management for the Hospitality and Tourism Industries will be illustrated throughout with both examples of best practice for prescriptive teaching and discussion, and international case studies to exercise problem solving techniques and contextualise learning. It incorporates a user friendly layout and includes pedagogic features such as: chapter outlines and objectives, HRM in practice – boxed examples, reflective review questions, web links? discussion questions and further reading. Accompanying the text are online supplementary lecturer materials including downloadable figures from the book, PowerPoint slides, further cases and extra exercises and points for discussion.