A new edition of cutting - edge HR thinking for senior undergraduate and postgraduate MBA students of Human Resource Management

This text covers a vital niche in the market, bringing very important cutting-edge HR thinking together in one text. The treatment of topics in this edition clearly corresponds to the unit standards required in teaching such a course. the contemporariness of the issues in this edition have changed to stay abreast of hot topics now under scrutiny in the field. These topics include talent management, change management, strategic human resources and labour law issues pertinent to the South African market. The text contains both international and South African perspectives.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press Southern Africa

ISBN:

9780195768046

Publication date:

June 2009

Length:

236mm

Width:

168mm

Thickness:

20mm

Weight:

544g

Edition:

3rd ed

Pages:

332

Illustrations:

Illustrated

Prescribed at:

UNISA 2012

Subject / Course:

HRM3704

Illustrated:

Illustrated

• 1. HRM's role in the evolving praradigm
• 2. HRs and the competitive advantage
• 3. HR and leadership
• 4. The strategic role of HRM
• 5. Managing flexible patterns of work for competitive advantage
• 6. Talent management - the role of HR
• 7. Managing intellectual capital within organizations
• 8. International HRM
• 9. HRM and the electronic era
• 10. Ethical issues and challenges, including sexual harrassment, in HRM
• 11. Corporate Citizenship
• 12. Change management