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Human Resource Management in a Business Context
3rd edition
by Alan Price
Human Resource Management in a Business Context provides an international focus on the theory and practice
of people management. A thorough and comprehensive overview of all the key aspects of HRM, including case studies, articles from HRM Guide and other sources,
key concepts, review questions and problems for discussion and analysis.
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Below the Breadline: Living on the Minimum Wage
by Fran Abrams
In the tradition of George Orwell's Down & Out in London & Paris, this book shows what it is like to try to live on ?4.10 an hour. Where can you live? What can you afford to eat? Or do in the evening? What are the jobs - and the workmates and bosses like? This book, in entertaining prose, sympathetic portraits and a telling eye for detail reveals all - including the extraordinary differences across the length of Britain.
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Human Resource Management in South Africa
Pieter A. Grobler, Surette Wärnich, Michael R. Carrell, Norbert F. Elbert and Robert D. Hatfield
The second edition of this best-selling text has been fully revised and updated in line with recent changes in the South African working environment. In particular, legislation such as the Employment Equity and Skills & Development Acts are discussed and practical issues including sexual harassment and the management of diversity are explored.
Balancing theory and practice throughout, the authors describe the role and contribution of the HR function in a modern organization, review current concepts, principles and techniques, and assess and evaluate the performance of HR activities – all in a South African context.
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HRM
and the business environment
Summary
In this section we looked at environmental factors which have a 'macro'
effect on the management of people. We outlined some of the most significant ways in which governments and
international bodies can determine the nature of employment, and outlined the major characteristics of three
different market models. We introduced the concept of human capital - investment in skills. We concluded with an
overview of the legal constraints affecting people management.
Further reading
Work to Welfare: How Men Become Detached from the Labour Market
by Pete Alcock, Christina Beatty, Stephen Fothergill, Rob MacMillan, Sue Yeandle
This book provides a new perspective on joblessness among men. During the last twenty years vast numbers of men of working age have moved completely out of the labour market into 'early retirement' or 'long-term sickness' and to take on new roles in the household. These trends stand in stark contrast to rising labour market participation among women. Based on an unprecedented range of new research on the detached male workforce in the UK, and located within an international context, the book offers a detailed exploration of the varied financial, family and health circumstances 'detached men' are living in.
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Converging Divergences: Worldwide Changes in Employment Systems
by Harry C. Katz, Owen Darbishire
Exploring recent changes in employment practices in seven industrialized countries (Australia, Britain, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, and the United States) and in two essential industries (automobile and telecommunications), Harry C. Katz and Owen Darbishire find that traditional national systems of employment are being challenged by four cross-national patterns. The patterns, which are becoming ever more prevalent, can be categorized as low-wage, human resource management, Japanese-oriented, and joint team-based strategies. The authors go on to show that these changing employment patterns are closely related to the decline of unions and growing income inequality.
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Hard Work: Life in Low-pay Britain
by Polly Toynbee
Could you live on the minimum wage? Guardian journalist Polly Toynbee took up the challenge, living in one of the worst council estates in Britain and taking whatever was on offer at the job centre. What she discovered shocked even her. In telesales and cake factories, as a hospital porter or a dinner-lady, she worked at breakneck pace for cut-rate wages, alongside working mothers and struggling retirees. The service sector is now administered by seedy agencies offering no prospects, no screening and no commitment. Most damning of all, Toynbee found that despite the optimism of Tony Blair's New Deal, the poorly paid effectively earn less than they did thirty years ago. Britain has the lowest social spending and the highest poverty in Europe. As the income gap between top and bottom has widened, so social mobility has shuddered to a halt. The low-paid are caught in an economic double bind that victimises them and shames the rest of us.
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The Working Life: The Promise and Betrayal of Modern Work
by Joanne B. Ciulla
Joanne B. Ciulla, a noted scholar in Leadership and Ethics, examines why so many people today have let their jobs take over their lives. Technology was supposed to free us from work, but instead we work longer hours-often tethered to the office at home by cell phones and e-mail. People still look to work for self-fulfillment, community, and identity, but these things may be increasingly difficult to find in today's workplace. Gone is the social contract where employees and employers shared a sense of mutual loyalty, yet many of us still sacrifice personal time for jobs that we could lose at the drop of a stock price. Tracing the evolution of the meaning of work from Aesop to Dilbert, and critically examining the past 100 years of management practices, Ciulla asks questions that we often willfully ignore at our own peril.
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Toxic Emotions at Work
by Peter J. Frost
Frost argues that managers must work to institutionalize compassion if they want to avoid the debilitating effects of pain on performance. He illustrates how managers can recognize and support toxin handlers, what they must learn from these individuals in order to take on the critical role of emotional management themselves.
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Human Resource Management in the Knowledge Economy: New Challenges, New Roles, New Capabilities
by Mark L. Lengnick-Hall, Cynthia A. Lengnick-Hall
This book demonstrates that for businesses to thrive in today’s economy, human resource managers must take on four new roles: human capital steward, knowledge facilitator, relationship builder, and rapid deployment specialist. Each role is discussed in detail using examples from leading businesses.
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Human Resource Management in Ireland
by Patrick Gunnigle, Noreen Heraty, Michael J. Morley
The authors place particular emphasis on modern trends such as employee attraction and retention, job design, employee motivation, reward systems and employee relations. Practical examples for Irish industry are used to explore contemporary trends. The text incorporates extensive reference to Irish research and case study vignettes. Irish legislative framework is examined. Given the significant labour market changes that have implications for Human Resource Management (HRM), this book has been totally revised and updated and covers the full range of HRM activity areas.
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Human Resource Management
by Lloyd L. Byars, Leslie W. Rue, Janet W. Elder
Byars and Rue's, Human Resource Management, 7/e, emphasizes the theoretical and practical aspects of HRM. The theoretical material is presented throughout the text and highlighted via a marginal glossary. The practical aspects of HRM are presented through lively and pedagogically effective examples placed throughout the text, as well as in the end-of-chapter materials. The new edition reflects changes in the business world in general, and the HRM function within organizations, since the previous edition was published.
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How to Measure Human Resource Management
by Jac Fitz-Enz, Barbara Davison
Once thought of simply as the place where employee records are kept, today's human resources department has evolved into a manager of human capital. However, HR faces challengesamong them providing necessary services at competitive cost, enhancing productivity, and justifying budgets at a time when outsourcing firms threaten its very existence. Now more than ever, HR needs to position itself as a value-added partner that contributes to the strategic goals of its organization.
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Business Environment
