
Human Resource Management
Issues, Challenges and Opportunities
Rae Simons(Editor)
Apple Academic Press Inc.
1st Edition
Published on 31. March 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
324 pages
978-1-77463-225-3 (ISBN)
Description
This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.
Human resource management is the strategic approach to management of an organization's most valuable asset-its people. It covers the recruitment, management, and direction of people who work for the organization and deals with employee compensation and benefits, hiring and training, performance management, organization development, safety and wellness, and organizational communication.
Human Resource Management: Issues, Challenges and Opportunities covers a broad array of topics on human resources management, including new emphasis on corporate social commitment, management practices that are essential for retaining effective professionals, financial rewards to stimulate longer workforce participation, entrepreneurial leadership, examination of leadership styles in different countries, dealing with organizational change, teamwork and employee resistance, integrating human resources aspects with corporate goals, and more.
This book provides an interesting group of chapters that shed light on a variety of international human resources management styles and practices. The competitive nature of twenty-first-century global commerce requires that businesses be managed strategically by managers who are knowledgeable in the principles of the field. The efficient, nonexploitive use of human resources is essential to building successful businesses around the world.
Human resource management is the strategic approach to management of an organization's most valuable asset-its people. It covers the recruitment, management, and direction of people who work for the organization and deals with employee compensation and benefits, hiring and training, performance management, organization development, safety and wellness, and organizational communication.
Human Resource Management: Issues, Challenges and Opportunities covers a broad array of topics on human resources management, including new emphasis on corporate social commitment, management practices that are essential for retaining effective professionals, financial rewards to stimulate longer workforce participation, entrepreneurial leadership, examination of leadership styles in different countries, dealing with organizational change, teamwork and employee resistance, integrating human resources aspects with corporate goals, and more.
This book provides an interesting group of chapters that shed light on a variety of international human resources management styles and practices. The competitive nature of twenty-first-century global commerce requires that businesses be managed strategically by managers who are knowledgeable in the principles of the field. The efficient, nonexploitive use of human resources is essential to building successful businesses around the world.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oakville
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Academic and Postgraduate
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 171 mm
Weight
600 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-77463-225-3 (9781774632253)
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Person
Rae Simons is a successful business manager in Binghamton, New York, who is well acquainted with the demands and details of management. With degrees earned in both psychology and education (from the State University of New York), she brings practical and wide-ranging insights to the field of business management. She has written extensively for numerous publications on business and other topics, including publishers such as Barbour Books, Greenwood, and Facts on File.
Content
Corporate Social Responsibility: The Key Role of Human Resource Management. Assessment of Human Resources Management Practices in Lebanese Hospitals. Turnover and Heterogenity in Top Management Networks: A Demographic Analysis of Two Swedish Business Groups. Change Management: Getting a Tuned Up Organization. Challenges at Work and Financial Rewards to Stimulate Longer Workforce Participation. The Effects of Human Resource Practices on Firm Growth. Common Factors Between Swedish and Chinese Entrepreneurial Leadership Styles. Paris on the Mekong: Using the Aid Effectiveness Agenda to Support Human Resources for Health in the Lao People's Democratic Republic. Strategic Human Resources Management: Aligning With the Mission. What Impact do Global Health Initiatives Have on Human Resources for Antiretroviral Treatment Roll-Out? A Qualitative Policy Analysis of Implementation Processes in Zambia. Biting the Hand that Feeds: Social Identity and Resistance in Restaurant Teams. Looking to the Future: Human Resource Competencies. Index.