The 14th edition of Human Resource Management provides students in human resource management courses and practicing managers with a full and practical introduction to human resource management concepts and techniques, with a focus on how to use those techniques to improve performance, productivity, and profitability at work.
Salient Features New to this edition: Improving Performance features demonstrate real-world human resource management tools and practices that managers actually use to improve performance. HR as a Profit Center contains actual examples of how human resource management practices add value by reducing costs or boosting revenues. Improving Performance: HR Tools for Line Managers and Entrepreneurs explains that many line managers and entrepreneurs are "on their own" when it comes to human resource management, and describes work sampling tests and other straightforward HR tools that line managers and entrepreneurs can create and safely use to improve performance.