Human Resource Management
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For undergraduate business and management courses, as well as CIPD-accredited courses.
Develop skills to put theory into practice, using academic research and current issues
Human Resource Management, 11th Edition, by Torrington, Hall, Taylor and Atkinson is praised for its comprehensive scope of topics, coverage of important HRM issues and succinctness. It is a great introduction to human resources for students pursuing undergraduate business and management courses, as well as those on CIPD accredited courses. Human resource management helps those aspiring to or working in HR or management roles. The eleventh edition has been thoroughly updated with the economic, social and legal employment practice changes and is specifically designed to cover the issues and debates facing HRM today, backed up by academic research.
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Written by a close-knit team, the authors have great experience in teaching and examining Human Resources at undergraduate, postgraduate, and professional levels, as well as ownership of thorough, deep-research portfolios and CIPD memberships.
Derek Torrington is an Emeritus Professor of Management at the University of Manchester, Chartered Companion for the CIPD, and previous Chief Examiner.
Laura Hall is a freelance academic and has carried out work for a wide range of bodies, including the CIPD.
Stephen Taylor is a senior lecturer in HRM at the University of Exeter Business School and a Chartered Companion for the CIPD.
Carol Atkinson is a Professor of HRM and Associate Dean for Research at Manchester Metropolitan University Business School. She is also a member of the CIPD Manchester Branch Committee.
Content
Part 1 - Human resource management in the modern world
1 The nature of human resource management
2 The global context for human resource management
3 HRM around the world
4 Strategic human resouce management
5 Workforce planning, analytics and AI
6 Employability: the basic skills
Part 2 - Resourcing: getting people in the right places to do the right things
7 Organisational agility and flexibility
8 Recruitment
9 Selection methods and decisions
10 Employability: skills in resourcing
Part 3 - Performance: success through individual and collective achievement
11 Employee performance management
12 Leadership
13 Managing attendance and absence
14 Engagement and retention
15 Employability: skills in performance
Part 4 - Development
16 Organisational change and development
17 The context of employee learning and development
18 Learning and development
19 Talent and career development
20 Employability: skills in learning and development
Part 5 - Employee relations
21 Employee voice
22 The legal framework of work
23 Diversity and inclusion
24 Employability: skills in employee relations
Part 6 - Reward: the contract for payment
25 Total reward and setting pay
26 Incentives
27 Pensions and benefits
28 Employability: skills in reward
Part 7 - Contemporary issues
29 HRM and business ethics
30 Managing the human resource function
31 HR in small and medium-sized enterprises
32 Health and well-being
33 Managing the international workforce
34 The future of work
35 Advanced HR skills
