Designed to provide a single source of cases, exercises, incidents, and skill builders, this book offers a fresh approach based on dynamic organizational events confronting both human resource managers and line managers who often implement personnel programs and policies. Topics range from traditional applications of personnel theory to the more controversial issues of AIDS, alcohol and drug abuse on the job, new federal legislation on discrimination issues, employment-at-will, work and family, and the human resource aspects of merger activities. The settings cover a wide variety of organizations with an emphasis on the growing service sector. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: This book presents 24 research-based cases that require users to apply relevant theoretical models to the analysis of real-life organizations and to specify solutions to practical managerial problems. Nine of the cases additionally provide role-playing exercises...read more

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Product Description: Cases in HR Practice and Strategy, Second Edition has been designed to help students and practitioners bridge the gap between theory and practice. It contains a wealth of realistic cases and business scenarios typically encountered by HR professionals...read more

Product Description: Contemporary Human Resource Management provides students with a thorough and critical exploration of all the key functions and issues within HRM today. Written in a clear yet thought-provoking style, the book contains chapters contributed by experts in their field to ensure coverage of the most recent ideas and practices...read more

This book helps readers feel comfortable identifying and dealing with the opportunities and challenges facing human resource management, enabling managers to view the issues and challenges from the viewpoints of the employee, employer, and society.

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Product Description: Foundations of Personnel/Human Resource Management 4th Edition by John M. Ivancevich (Author), William G. Glueck (Author), Hardcover.

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Ivancevich�s Human Resource Management, 10e takes a managerial orientation; that is it takes the position that HRM is relevant to managers in every unit, project, or team. Managers are constantly faced with HRM issues, problems, and decision-making and the text's primary goal is to show how each manager must be a human resource problem solver and diagnostician. This book pays attention to the application of HRM approaches in "real" organizational settings and situations. Realism, understanding, and critical thinking were important in the revision. Students and faculty alike have identified readability and relevance as key strengths of the text. It provides a book that stimulates ideas and keeps all users up-to-date on HRM thinking and practice.

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This textbook is designed for advanced undergraduates and MBA students of human resource management. Using a thematic rather than a techniques-based structure, it provides an opportunity to engage with current problems and issues by going beyond the normal emphasis on best practice and techniques and developing an awareness of the wider context. Accompanied by a website at http://www.palgrave.com/business/newell containing lecturer support materials, this text presents the key themes underpinning an understanding of human resource management through the use of detailed research-based case studies.