"Managing human resources is a critical component of any company's overall mission to provide val-ue to customers, shareholders, employees, and the community in which it does business. Value includes profits as well as employee growth and satisfaction, creation of new jobs, contributions to community programs, protection of the environment, and innovative use of new technologies Each chapter includes several different pedagogical features. 'Best Practices' provides examples of companies whose HR activities work well. 'HR Oops!' highlights HRM issues that have been handled poorly. 'Did You Know?' offers interesting statistics about chapter topics and how they play out in real-world companies. 'HRM Social' demonstrates how social media and the Internet can be useful in managing HR activities in any organization. 'Thinking Ethically' confronts students with issues that occur in managing human resources. Each feature includes questions to assist students with critical thinking and to spark classroom discussions"--
As shown in quadrant 3, job analysis can provide information about the worker and be presented in a very standardized format. This allows for comparisons ... Each of these job-analysis techniques yields different types of information.
"Our intent is to provide students with the background to be successful HRM professionals, to manage human resources effectively, and to be knowledgeable consumers of HRM products. Managers must be able to identify effective HRM practices to purchase these services from a consultant, to work with the HRM department, or to design and implement them personally. Hu-man Resources Management: Gaining a Competitive Advantage, 12th edition, emphasizes how a manager can more effectively manage human resources and highlights important issues in cur-rent HRM practice"--
"Our intent is to provide students with the background to be successful HRM professionals, to manage human resources effectively, and to be knowledgeable consumers of HRM products.
The first edition of Strategic Human Resource Management was built on the foundations of the most successful HRM text in the United States, which is now in its ninth edition. The second Canadian edition continues to build on the strengths of these two titles and incorporates both new and updated content while still reflecting the Canadian HRM reality. The Canadian experience and perspective is deftly woven into the text through targeted Canadian examples and cases, and covers all the major strategic HRM topics in depth while respecting parameters of the Canadian semester. The Second Canadian edition focuses on the three challenges facing companies today - sustainability, technology and globalization. Strategic Human Resource Management, brings these three challenges to life by highlighting real-world examples pertaining to these issues and relating it to the concepts within the chapter. Additionally the text draws from the diverse research, teaching, work, and consulting experiences of the authors and emphasizes how the HRM function, and the management of human resources, can help companies gain a competitive advantage.
Additionally the text draws from the diverse research, teaching, work, and consulting experiences of the authors and emphasizes how the HRM function, and the management of human resources, can help companies gain a competitive advantage.
