Introducing Human Resource
Management, 4th edition

By Margaret Foot & Caroline Hook
Financial Times / Pearson Education Limited
August 2005
ISBN: 0273681745
538 Pages, Illustrated
$92.50 paper original

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This accessible, student friendly text has been written for students taking an HRM or Personnel Management option on a Business Degree, or studying for an HND, Foundation Degree or CIPD qualification. Covering all the core HRM topics, it uses a broad range of features and activities to enhance students' learning experience, explaining the ideas and theories with real life examples.

Contents
1. Introducing HRM
2. Human Resource Strategy and Planning
3. Recruitment
4. Selection: shortlisting and interviews
5. Selection: supplementing the interview
6. The Employment Relationship
7. Introduction to the Learning Process
8. Learning and Development Programmes
9. Performance Appraisal and Performance Management
10. Payment Systems
11. Managing Employee Welfare
12. Health and Safety
13. Partnership, Employee Involvement and High Performance Working
14. Discipline and Grievance
15. Dismissal, Redundancy and Outplacement

Features
" Questions and activities encourage students to assess their understanding as they progress.
" Interactive style, with clear learning objectives, review questions, activities, and 'pause for thought' and 'did you know?' extracts, which are integrated throughout.
" Clear and authoritative illustrations, tables and diagrams.
" Just the right amount of coverage for one semester courses.

Additional Support Material A companion website with valuable teaching and learning resources For lecturers: Multiple choice questions, role play scenarios, case studies and power point slides. For students: Multiple choice questions and quizzes.




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