This accessible and critical text provides a comprehensive introduction to the evolving area of HRM, illustrating theory in practice and encouraging students to reflect on current thinking. Human Resource Management is an invaluable course companion for students at both undergraduate and graduate level. Challenging and modern, this third edition has been thoroughly revised and updated and, combined with this brand new website, offers a complete teaching and learning package.

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Quote of the month: People are the only element with the inherent power to generate value. All the other variables offer nothing but inert potential. By their nature, they add nothing, and they cannot add anything until some human being leverages that potential by putting it into play. Jac Fitz-enz, The ROI of Human Capital, 2000, p. xii

New to this edition

Thoroughly updated to reflect the contemporary context of HRM, the new edition includes:

• A new chapter on Evaluating HRM which discusses different approaches to researching and evaluating HR strategies.
• An expanded discussion of workplace learning, including knowledge management and e-learning.
• New material on post-Fordist topics in work organisation, flexibility, e-HR, selection testing, skills, indirect employee participation and social partnerships.
• Updated legislation.

In addition, the text has been completely rewritten to ensure accessibility and encourage student interactivity. New features include:

Reflective Questions which challenge the student to think analytically and critically and to consider the broader relationships and interactions of the topics under discussion.

Study Tips which encourage students to challenge mainstream thinking on HRM by formulating critical thinking questions and identifying and evaluating alternative information and perspectives.

HRM Web-links which enable students to download statistical information, follow current international developments in HRM practices, and even to monitor the job market in human resource management.

Practising HRM Assignments which focus on skill development enabling students to use the HRM theories and concepts they learn to improve their personal and professional lives.

Features

• Critical and analytical approach to the subject encourages students to challenge assumptions and evaluate different perspectives (rather than providing an HRM manual).
• Comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the subject with weblinks, thorough referencing and a full index enables students to explore the topic as far as they need to.
• Student-focused writing style, including integrated HRM in practice extracts and case studies which illustrate the application of theory in practice.
• An international perspective allows students to appreciate the differences in HRM practice around the world.
• This substantial companion website to help lecturers integrate the text into their teaching and provide students with additional information and exercises.

About the Authors

Dr. John Bratton is Associate Professor and teaches at the University of Calgary and the University College of the Cariboo, Canada. He has also taught at Leeds Business School, Leeds Metropolitan University, the University of Bradford and the Open University in the UK and has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Tampere, Finland.

His research interests focus on the politics of technology, leadership and workplace learning and he was the first Director of the University of Calgary’s Workplace Learning Research Unit. He has undertaken research on HRM in Japan and Germany and has published widely in journals in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. In 2001, he co-chaired the Second International Conference on Researching Work and Learning.

Dr. Bratton is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Workplace Learning and is the author of several books, including Japanization of Work: Managerial Studies in the 1990s; New Technology and Employment (1981) (with Jeremy Waddington), Workplace Learning: A Critical Introduction (with T Pyrch, J Helm-Mills and P Sawchuk, Garamond Press (2003)) and Organizational Leadership (with K Grint and D Nelson, forthcoming).

John Bratton can be contacted directly by email at bratton@acs.ucalgary.ca or alternatively via his web site at http://www.ucalgary.ca/cted/bratton.html

Jeffrey Gold is Principal Lecturer in Human Resource Management at Leeds Business School, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK and a Visiting Lecturer at the Ecole Superieure de Commerce, Amiens, France.

He has published widely on human resource development and issues relating to learning at work and is a founding member of the Human Resource Development Unit within Leeds Business School.

Jeffrey Gold has a strong interest in action learning and the creation of collaborative learning partnerships with organizations to bridge the divide between academic ideas and organization practice. He has acted as a consultant for multinational clients in the USA and Europe.

Jeffrey Gold can be contacted directly by email at J.Gold@lmu.ac.uk or alternatively via his web site at http://www.leedsmet.ac.uk/lbs/hrdu/publications/jgold.htm

About this website

• Suggested course outlines to demonstrate how to incorporate the text in your teaching
• Lecture notes for each chapter expanding the content in the book and providing advice for teaching each topic. This includes lecture enhancement notes providing new ideas for adding further dimensions to lectures
• Powerpoint lecture slides for each chapter, including key points and definitions, learning objectives and relevant figures and tables, which you can edit for your own use
• Extensive weblinks from the coursebook to further resources around the world

• Summary Lecture Notes to accompany each chapter topic
• Skill Development Exercises to improve their professional competencies

• Extensive weblinks to further resources around the world to help them research topics in more depth

• Searchable HRM Glossary

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