The new edition of a textbook for business students thinking of becoming human resources professionals in the United States. Chapters cover strategic management, individual performance and retention, legal framework for equal employment, labor recruiting, training human resources, performance management and appraisal, compensation strategies, variable pay and executive compensation, employee benefits, health and safety, employee rights and discipline, union-management relationships, and the impacts of globalization. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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This market-leading text takes a pragmatic approach emphasizing the strategic role of human resources. Comprehensive, research-based coverage includes all major topics identified on the Human Resource Certification Institutes Content Outline. Coverage includes a global chapter, expanded coverage of diversity, new material on performance management, and current hot topics such as self-directed work teams, shamrock organization, broadbanding, competency-based pay systems, job security, violence in the workplace, and how organizational commitment affects production, quality, and service.
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