Applied Human Resource Management: Strategic Issues and Experiential Exercises / Edition 1

by Kenneth M. York

Overview

Applied Human Resource Management: Strategic Issues and Experiential Exercises gives business students in-depth, hands-on experiential learning applications to help them develop the skills they will need as human resource professionals who deal with people in diverse settings and situations. Providing maximum teaching flexibility, each chapter presents ten different issues that organizations must resolve to manage their human resources effectively. These chapters also offer four distinct types of interactive learning experiences: Strategic Issues in HRM Exercises, Applications, Experiential Exercises, and Creative Exercises.

Key Features

• Offers four Strategic Issues in HRM exercises in each chapter that can be used for class discussions, assigned as homework problems, used as topics for group presentations, or incorporated into tests as essay questions
• Includes two Applications per chapter, brief projects that require students to apply a human resource management concept to a realistic situation, which are ideal for use as homework assignments, instructor illustrations/demonstrations, or in-class projects
• Provides two Experiential Exercises in each chapter to provide students with hands-on learning experiences within a realistic context
• Includes two open-ended Creative Exercises per chapter that ask students or teams to develop unique solutions to realistic problems using what they have learned
• Provides a list of each chapter's exercises grouped according to The Human Resource Certification Institute's Body of Knowledge in Human Resources Management categories to help instructors plan the exercises they want to use according to the HRM Body of Knowledge

Intended Audience
This book is an ideal core or supplemental text for graduate-level courses in Human Resource Management, Advanced Human Resource Management, and Personnel Management in departments of business, management, public administration, education, and psychology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412954921
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	02/10/2009
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 9.80(h) x 0.90(d)

Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction to the Management of Human Resources
Strategic Objective
Strategic Issues in HRM
Applications
Experiential Exercises
Creative Exercises
Chapter 2: Equal Employment Opportunity
Strategic Objective
Strategic Issues in HRM
Applications
Experiential Exercises
Creative Exercises
Chapter 3: Job Analysis
Strategic Objective
Strategic Issues in HRM
Applications
Experiential Exercises
Creative Exercises
Chapter 4: Recruitment and Socialization
Strategic Objective
Strategic Issues in HRM
Applications
Experiential Exercises
Creative Exercises
Chapter 5: Selection
Strategic Objective
Strategic Issues in HRM
Applications
Experiential Exercises
Creative Exercises
Chapter 6: Performance Appraisal
Strategic Objective
Strategic Issues in HRM
Applications
Creative Exercises
Chapter 7: Training and Developing Employees
Strategic Objective
Strategic Issues in HRM
Applications
Experiential Exercises
Creative Exercises
Chapter 8: Compensation and Benefits
Strategic Objective
Strategic Issues in HRM
Applications
Experiential Exercises
Creative Exercises
Chapter 9: Occupational Safety and Health
Strategic Objective
Strategic Issues in HRM
Applications
Experiential Exercises
Creative Exercises
Chapter 10: Employee Relations and Labor-Management Relations
Strategic Objective
Strategic Issues in HRM
Applications
Experiential Exercises
Creative Exercises
Chapter 11: Organizational Change and Development
Strategic Objective
Strategic Issues in HRM
Applications
Experiential Exercises
Creative Exercises
Chapter 12: International HRM
Strategic Objective
Strategic Issues in HRM
Applications
Experiential Exercises
Creative Exercises
References
Index
About the Author