Product Description: Strategic human resource management (SHRM) has been taken up by academics, consultants, and practitioners.  However, the integration of human resource strategy with business strategy is often easier in theory than in practice.  Bridging this gap, Michael Armstrong offers a guide both to formulating human resource strategies and to implementing them...read more

Product Description: This updated fifth edition of Armstrong's Handbook of Reward Management Practice contains new information on computerized reward management and new case studies. Additionally, Armstrong revised the chapters on pay evaluation, pay structures, merit pay, and executive pay to include new information...read more

Product Description: Aimed at both HR practitioners involved in employee motivation and students who need to understand the importance of reward and how it can be successfully applied across organizations, this edition contains new research conducted by E-Reward, as well as brand new case studies of international companies that are effectively using incentives to improve performance such as global delivery service DHL, international life insurance and pensions Aegon, mobile phone manufacturer DGS International, building materials industry leader, Cemex and British Telecom...read more

Managing staff performance is an effective mechanism for developing both staff and organizational growth. By clarifying an organization’s objectives, translating these into clear individual goals, and reviewing these goals regularly, performance management provides a well-structured and effective management tool. This new edition of Armstrong’s Handbook of Performance Management looks at the results of major research in this area. Armstrong considers how evidence-based material can inform one’s understanding of performance management, and he provides practical guidance on how this evidence can be interpreted and applied.

Product Description: A classic text for all students of HR Management, Armstrong's Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice provides a complete resource for understanding and implementing HR.  It includes in-depth explanations of all the key areas essential to the HR function, such as performance management, organizational behavior, employee relations and health, safety and welfare...read more

Product Description: This ninth edition of How to be an Even Better Manager covers over 60 essential topics across the three key areas in which any manager needs to be competent: managing people; managing activities and processes; and managing and developing yourself...read more

Product Description: In order to make an effective contribution, HR specialists have to be good at management, leadership and developing themselves and others. However, in addition, they need to be aware of the management and business considerations that affect their work...read more

Product Description: This eighth edition of How to be an Even Better Manager covers 50 essential topics across the three key areas in which managers need to be competent: managing people; managing activities and processes; and managing and developing themselves...read more

Product Description: A distillation of Michael Armstrong's knowledge and experience, How to Manage People provides practical advice to managers and team leaders who don't have an HR department to support them. The text covers every aspect of getting things done through people, including: leadership, motivation, team building, delegation, interviewing, managing change, managing, developing and rewarding performance, and handling people problems...read more

Product Description: This book, a complete overview of the practices and processes fundamental to HR, is written for those who are not HR professionals but need to have a thorough understanding of how to manage people.  The text provides a thorough introduction to the core areas of HR including: people resourcing, performance management, learning and development and rewarding people...read more

Product Description: Children, their World, their Education is the definitive text for students, teachers, researchers, educational leaders and all who are interested in primary education. As the culmination of the Cambridge Primary Review, the most comprehensive enquiry into English primary education for half a century, its publication provoked instant and dramatic headlines...read more

Based on British practice but also of interest to American HR professionals, Reward Management has been judged “the undisputed ‘bible’ on the topic” by the Journal of Administrative Management. This definitive book explains reward management, which is concerned with formulating and implementing strategies and policies that aim to reward people fairly, equitably and consistently in accordance with their value to the organization.  It examines in detail the processes and various approaches that can be adopted to achieve and reward outstanding skill and competence levels in the workplace. Comprehensive and highly practical in its approach, it takes a strategic perspective and addresses the wide gap that exists between theory and practice, with a focus on the implications for practitioners.

Product Description: Armstrong’s Handbook of Management and Leadership provides guidance on the processes of management and leadership with emphasis on what managers and aspiring managers need to know and do to make a difference in their organizations...read more

Strategic Human Resource Management provides practical guidance on putting complex HR strategies into practice. Presenting HRM strategies that have been formulated and developed by practitioners, academics and consultants, it demonstrates how these can be implemented in a real-world context and in line with business objectives to effect positive and productive change. Substantially updated, the fourth edition includes new material which reflects important developments in HR strategies, 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.

Product Description: Guide to modern techniques in all fields of management; ideal companion for professional managers, as well as an essential reference book for business and management students. Includes over 100 systematic and analytical methods used to assist in decision-making and to improve efficiency and effectiveness...read more

Product Description: Managing staff performance is an effective mechanism for developing both staff and organizational growth. By clarifying an organization's objectives, translating these into clear individual goals, and reviewing these goals regularly, performance management provides a well-structured and effective management tool...read more