Managing Human Resources in North America: Current Issues and Perspectives

by Werner; Steve

• ISBN13: 9780415396851
• ISBN10: 0415396859
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-04-25
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This unique new text covers the key issues in North American human resources today. Providing an overview of new and emerging issues in North American human resource management (HRM), the chapters are divided into three parts. The first part examines how changes in the business environment have affected HRM; the second part looks at topics that have escalated in importance over the last few years; and the third part analyzes topics that have recently emerged as concerns. Each chapter is authored by a leading figure in the field and features case vignettes to provide practical illustrations of the points in hand. The chapters also conclude with guidelines to help HR professionals deal with the issues raised. A companion website featuring online lecturer and student resources is available for this text and can be visited at www.routledge.com/textbooks/0415396867. Managing Human Resources in North America isintended as a core text for current issues in HRM courses in North America and as a supplementary text for students studying international HRM in other countries. It will be invaluable reading for all those studying HRM in North America or currently working in the field.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. x
Notes on contributors	p. xi
Foreword	p. xiv
Preface	p. xvi
Acknowledgments	p. xviii
Introduction to managing HR in North America	p. 1
Major changes in environmental factors and HRM	p. 9
Staffing and developing the multinational workforce	p. 11
The new factory	p. 26
Advances in technology-based training	p. 27
Sexual harassment training for professors	p. 43
New HR challenges in the dynamic environment of legal compliance	p. 44
The salary that doesn't compute	p. 59
The changing family and HRM	p. 60
Retaining new mothers	p. 72
Areas of increased importance	p. 73
Ethics and HRM	p. 75
The traveling employee	p. 84
Health, safety and HRM	p. 85
The hard-headed worker	p. 99
Competitive advantage through HRM	p. 100
The disjointed HR system	p. 113
Counterproductive leader behavior	p. 114
The candy conundrum	p. 126
Emerging trends and new issues	p. 127
Outsourcing and HRM	p. 129
Outsourcing HR	p. 142
The costs of employee benefits	p. 143
Which benefits?	p. 157
Executive compensation: something old, something new	p. 158
The compensation committee challenge	p. 171
HRM after 9/11 and Katrina	p. 172
The disaster plan	p. 186
Concluding thoughts	p. 187
Index	p. 195
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