Human Resource Management: Theory and Practice

Fully up-to-date revised edition with new exciting real-world features including video interviews with HR managers. In the words of video interviewees for Human Resource Management fifth edition: 'The HR strategy absolutely underpins the business strategy' - Lesley White, HR Director UK and Ireland, Huawei Technologies 'Organisations provide a differential through their people' - Keith Hanlon-Smith, Employee Relations Director, Norland Managed Services This new edition of Human Resource Management: Theory and Practice combines comprehensive text and web material to help you understand the context of the rapidly changing contemporary workplace and the importance of HRM within it. The authors challenge you to think critically and to apply this to the real world of business. Key features include: * Two new chapters on Leadership and management development, and Organisational culture and HRM * HRM and Globalization - sections analysing HRM on an international scale and the challenges of managing people across borders * A focus on contemporary themes such as sustainability, dignity at work, diversity and emotion * HRM as I see it - online video interviews with HR managers at organisations such as Sky, Bupa and Unite the Union, with accompanying questions in the textbook * HRM in Practice sections and Case Studies - demonstrate HRM at work in the real world and encourage you to be analytical about practical issues * Online multi-choice questions and skills development guide - aid your understanding and help you get to grips with writing reports and giving presentations. Visit www.palgrave.com/business/bratton5 for comprehensive supporting materials for lecturers and students, including all-new video interviews with HR professionals.

Table of Contents:
PART I: THE ARENA OF CONTEMPORARY HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT The Nature of Contemporary HRM Corporate Strategy and Strategic HRM Human Resource Management and Performance PART II: THE MICRO CONTEXT OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT Work and Work Systems Organizational Culture and HRM PART III: EMPLOYEE RESOURCING Workforce Planning and Talent Management Recruiting and Selecting Employees PART IV: EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE & REWARD SYSTEMS Performance Management and Appraisal Reward Management PART V: EMPLOYEE DEVELOPMENT Learning and Human Resource Development Leadership and Management Development PART VI: EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS Employee Relations and Involvement Health and Safety Management Industrial Relations PART VII: THE GLOBAL CONTEXT OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT International Human Resource Management Recession, Sustainability, Trust: the Crisis of HRM

About the Author :
John Bratton Professor of Sociology at Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, Canada, and Visiting Professor at Edinburgh Napier University, UK. Jeff Gold Professor of Organization Learning at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK.

Review :
'If you only read one HRM book read this one: it's brimming with clearly explained concepts and contemporary examples and covers everything you need to engage with the debates, either as a student or a practitioner. If only all textbooks were this good!' - Keith Grint, University of Warwick, UK 'This is undoubtedly a very well established and highly regarded HRM text. The new edition brings a freshness and vitality to the study of HRM.' - Ciara Nolan, University of Ulster, UK 'The theoretical insights this new edition offers will raise the intellectual bar for HR studies, and, hopefully, it will prompt some serious thought among practitioners regarding what needs to change.' -Robert Storey, McMaster University, Canada 'The clarity is very good: the authors present complex ideas and models in 'normal' language. This is a very strong point!' - Willem de Nijs, Radboud University, the Netherlands