Human Resource Management

by Mathis, Robert L.; Jackson, John H.

• ISBN13: 9780324071511
• ISBN10: 0324071515
• Edition: 10th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-04-26
• Publisher: South-Western College Pub

Summary

This market-leading text takes a pragmatic approach emphasizing the strategic role of human resources. Comprehensive, research-based coverage includes all major topics identified on the Human Resource Certification Institutes Content Outline. Coverage includes a global chapter, expanded coverage of diversity, new material on performance management, and current hot topics such as self-directed work teams, shamrock organization, broadbanding, competency-based pay systems, job security, violence in the workplace, and how organizational commitment affects production, quality, and service.

Table of Contents

Preface	xvi
Section 1 Nature of Human Resource Management	1	(98)
Changing Nature of Human Resource Management	2	(26)
Strategic Human Resource Management	28	(38)
Individual Performance and Retention	66	(33)
Section 2 Staffing the Organization	99	(170)
Legal Framework for Equal Employment	100	(36)
Managing Diversity and Equal Employment	136	(30)
Jobs	166	(34)
Recruiting in Labor Markets	200	(32)
Selecting and Placing Human Resources	232	(37)
Section 3 Training and Developing Human Resources	269	(100)
Training Human Resources	270	(34)
Careers and HR Development	304	(32)
Performance Management and Appraisal	336	(33)
Section 4 Compensating Human Resources	369	(104)
Compensation Strategies and Practices	370	(38)
Variable Pay and Executive Compensation	408	(30)
Managing Employee Benefits	438	(35)
Section 5 Employee Relations and Global HR	473	(149)
Health, Safety, and Security	474	(34)
Employee Rights and Discipline	508	(34)
Union-Management Relationship	542	(32)
Globalization of HR Management	574	(48)
Appendixes
Appendix A Human Resource Certification Institute Test Specifications	606	(4)
Appendix B Current Literature in HR Management	610	(4)
Appendix C Major Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Laws and Regulations	614	(1)
Appendix D Starting a Career	615	(7)
Glossary	622	(8)
Name Index	630	(5)
Subject Index	635