For courses in Human Resources Management.
Authoritative and current information on Human Resource Management that ALL managers can use.
This best-selling HRM text is designed to provide authoritative and accurate information on HR-related responsibilities and personnel management by focusing on practical applications, concepts, and techniques that ALL managers can use in business.
More than 100 new topics can be found throughout this edition, along with new features and video cases.
Available with MyManagementLab. See the hands in the air, hear the roar of discussion–be a rock star in the classroom. MyManagementLab makes it easier for you to be rock the classroom by helping you hold students accountable for class preparation, and getting students engaged in the material through an array of relevant teaching and media resources. Visit mymanagementlab.com for more information.
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PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1: Introduction to Human Resource Management
Chapter 2: Equal Opportunity and the Law
Chapter 3: The Manager’s Role in Strategic Human Resource Management
PART TWO: RECRUITMENT AND PLACEMENT
Chapter 4: Job Analysis
Chapter 5: Personnel Planning and Recruiting
Chapter 6: Employee Testing and Selection
Chapter 7: Interviewing Candidates
PART THREE: TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 8: Training and Developing Employees
Chapter 9: Performance Management and Appraisal
Chapter 10: Coaching, Careers, and Talent Management
PART FOUR: COMPENSATION
Chapter 11: Establishing Strategic Pay Plans
Chapter 12: Pay for Performance and Financial Incentives
Chapter 13: Benefits and Services
PART FIVE: EMPLOYEE RELATIONS
Chapter 14: Ethics, Justice, and Fair Treatment in HR Management
Chapter 15: Labor Relations and Collective Bargaining
Chapter 16: Employee Safety and Health
Chapter 17: Managing Global Human Resources
Chapter 18: Managing Human Resources in Entrepreneurial Firms
Keeping Your Course Current and Relevant.
NEW Topics.
More than 100 new topics can be found throughout the thirteenth edition. For example, a thoroughly revised Chapter 6 (Employee Selection) features new, significantly expanded treatments of reliability, validity, generalizability, utility, person job fit, person organization fit, bias, and more.
NEW Boxed Features.
- The Strategic Context is now paired with new Strategic Human Resource Management opening scenes. This was included to help illustrate the strategic context of each chapter’s material.
- The new HR as a Profit Center boxed features present a new focus throughout the book on the value proposition and on HR strategy, metrics, and analysis. These features show actual examples of how human resource management practices added measurable value to a given company.
NEW Video Cases.
Three or more video cases appear at the end of each of the text’s five parts and five longer, comprehensive written cases in an appendix at the end of the text.
For courses in Human Resources Management.
Authoritative and current information on Human Resource Management that ALL managers can use.
This best-selling HRM text is designed to provide authoritative and accurate information on HR-related responsibilities and personnel management by focusing on practical applications, concepts, and techniques that ALL managers can use in business.
More than 100 new topics can be found throughout this edition, along with new features and video cases.
Available with MyManagementLab. See the hands in the air, hear the roar of discussion–be a rock star in the classroom. MyManagementLab makes it easier for you to be rock the classroom by helping you hold students accountable for class preparation, and getting students engaged in the material through an array of relevant teaching and media resources. Visit mymanagementlab.com for more information.
MYMANAGEMENTLAB
Engaging Students and Holding Them Accountable for Their Class Performance
MyManagementLab helps you hold students accountable for class preparation and supports more active learning styles by providing students with the tools necessary to assess their knowledge and identify areas for improvement. Consisting of the pretest, remediation material based on the pretest results, and the posttest, the Study Plan helps professors ensure that students have a basic understanding of course material before coming to class.
Bringing Excitement and Interest to the Center Stage
Inspire the exchange of new ideas and foster intriguing discussions with the abundant resources found in MyManagementLab.
Appeal to the Visual Learners: Interactive Lessons. Tied to each objective in the chapter, Interactive Lessons are designed for learners who benefit from a more visual/interactive approach. These lessons feature questions and answers and can be used as starting points. They can even serve as customized feedback in student study plans.
Course Currency at Your Fingertips: Business News Videos. The BizTube videos found in MyManagementLab will feature breaking business news and scenarios pertinent to the topics covered in your course. Discussion Questions (along with answers) accompany these videos so that you can use this asset in your classroom immediately. Videos are updated monthly.
Making it Easier for You to Rock the Room MyManagementLab puts an array of teaching resources at your fingertips, making it easy for you to be a rock star in the classroom!
Show the Real-world Applications: Company Videos and Video Case Studies. Give your students access to videos and video cases that feature both large corporations and small businesses. These videos are also supported with teaching notes, slides, and discussion and quiz questions.
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Managing HR Activities in Small Businesses.
Intended for line and small-business managers, the When You’re On Your Own sections within each chapter help students understand how HR-related activities could affect a manager in an entrepreneurial workplace. Examples include:
- How to recruit and train new employees when their HR department is too busy to help.
- How to avoid committing management malpractice.
- How to effectively address the possibility of terrorist threats.
Improving Productivity through HRIS sections.
The Improving Productivity through HRIS sections, located throughout each chapter, illustrate how managers use technology to improve the productivity of HR. For example, Chapter 6 explains:
- How managers use applicant-tracking systems to compile web-based resumes.
- How they’re able to prescreen applicants online.
- What needs to be done in order to discover candidates’ hidden talents.
Knowing Your Employment Law features.
Today, virtually every HR-related decision has legal implications. To help students make more informed decisions in their future careers, each chapter in this edition contains one or more of the Know Your Employment Law feature. For example, Chapter 6 explains what line managers should know about the federal and state laws governing how employers acquire and use applicants’ and employees’ background information, including:
- Disclosure and authorization.
- Certification.
- Providing copies of reports.
- Notice of adverse action.
Keeping Your Course Current and Relevant.
NEW Topics.
More than 100 new topics can be found throughout the thirteenth edition. For example, a thoroughly revised Chapter 6 (Employee Selection) features new, significantly expanded treatments of reliability, validity, generalizability, utility, person job fit, person organization fit, bias, and more.
NEW Boxed Features.
- The Strategic Context is now paired with new Strategic Human Resource Management opening scenes. This was included to help illustrate the strategic context of each chapter’s material.
- The new HR as a Profit Center boxed features present a new focus throughout the book on the value proposition and on HR strategy, metrics, and analysis. These features show actual examples of how human resource management practices added measurable value to a given company.
NEW Video Cases.
Three or more video cases appear at the end of each of the text’s five parts and five longer, comprehensive written cases in an appendix at the end of the text.
Gary Dessler has degrees from New York University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the Baruch School of Business of the City University of New York. Dr. Dessler’s best-selling Human Resource Management is also available in more than 10 languages including Russian and Chinese. Dessler’s other books include Framework for Human Resource Management, Fundamentals of Human Resource Management, Managing Now, Management: Modern Principles and Practices for Tomorrow’s Leaders, and Winning Commitment: How to Build and Keep a Competitive Workforce. He has published articles on employee commitment, leadership, supervision, and quality improvement in journals including the Academy of Management Executive, SAM Advanced Management Journal, Supervision, Personnel Journal, and International Journal of Service Management. As a Founding Professor at Florida International University, Dessler served for many years in its College of Business as Professor of Business, Associate Dean, and Chairman of the Management and International Business department, teaching courses in human resource management, strategic management, and management. For the past few years, Dessler has focused on his research and textbook writing, and on giving lectures, seminars, and courses in Asia and around the world on topics including strategic management, modern human resource management, evidence-based human resource management, and talent management.