Description

Encourage your students' critical thinking skills with a contemporary perspective on Human Resource Management.

Human Resource Management, 8th edition is a highly engaging textbook that explores the latest developments and their impact on HRM. Its range of topics and features make this best-seller an ideal learning resource for your course.

Features

• Introductory and concluding case studies for use in seminars to stimulate interest and provoke thought
• Self-test questions for students in each chapter
• Explore sections for the reader to consider how theories, models and concepts apply to various types of workplaces
• ‘Key controversies’ which extract contentious issues and invite the reader to formulate their own viewpoint

New to this Edition

New and updated features of this title

Changes in the content reflect the new developments in the field of HRM both in theory and practice

• Updates in chapters provide a critical reflection of significant contemporary events that have taken place since the previous edition.
• New content discusses the aftermath of the financial crisis that is affecting many Western Economies.
• New chapter considers the impact of Brexit, with predictions over the uncertainty in the business world that UK s decision to leave the EU has caused.
• Extensive coverage of the green agenda on HRM.

Extensive references debate the evolution of HRM on a global scale

• Chapters offer continuous exploration of issues in the operation of HRM, raised by globalisation, and the emerging economies of China and India.
• An ongoing discussion on the ways multinational companies influence HRM concepts and practices across the globe, as well as the national and international policy environments HRM operates.

Table of Contents

Back Cover

Human Resource Management, eighth edition

Julie Beardwell and Amanda Thompson

 

This highly engaging, bestselling textbook, now in its eighth edition offers a comprehensive examination of contemporary human resource management issues and debates.

 

Aimed at undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA students, this title provides an authoritative source for students of CIPD Advanced qualifications. An at-a-glance mapping table linking CIPD modules to the book chapters is included.

 

Human Resource Management: A Contemporary Approach seeks to raise critical awareness of HRM through a series of highly readable chapters which expertly entwine research informed theory with practical insights to the subject.  

 

New to the eighth edition is a focus on:

· comparative HRM and globalisation,

· ethics, CSR and employee wellbeing,

· a new chapter considering the impact of BREXIT and

· coverage of the green agenda on HRM.

Popular features of the text have been enhanced and updated, such as:

 

· Introductory and concluding case studies for use in seminars to stimulate interest and provoke thought

· Self-test questions for students in each chapter

· Explore sections for the reader to consider how theories, models and concepts apply to various types of workplaces

·  ‘Key controversies’ which extract contentious issues and invite the reader to formulate their own viewpoint

 

About the authors

Julie Beardwell was Chief Moderator Standards at the CIPD until 2015 and has over 25 years' experience of leading and teaching on HR programmes.

 

Amanda Thompson is Head of the Department of HRM and Head of the Department of Corporate Development at De Montfort University

 

Author

Julie Beardwell was Chief Moderator Standards at the CIPD until 2015 and has over 25 years of experience in leading and teaching HR programmes.

Amanda Thompson is Head of the Department of HRM and Head of the Department of Corporate Development at De Montfort University.