A Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice [Paperback]

Before such workplace innovations as e-mail and microwaves in the staff rooms, there were personnel departments who placed job adverts, dutifully sorted applications and passed round the odd memo on staff incentive schemes. Today we have HR divisions, as business finally realises that its best resource is the human element of its organisation. This book is a complete manual for the new breed of manager who sees staff as something more than numbers on the payroll. Everything you need to develop strategies for recruiting, training and motivating staff is here. From the job description to the golden handshake. Beginning with the basics of what makes an effective HR manager, through to recognising your staff's needs and meeting them, to overcoming barriers to organisational motivation and rewarding good employees. This book is filled with useful models on everything from how to formalise policies (such as health and safety), training, equal opportunities monitoring and keeping good HR records. At its basic level, it is an invaluable tool for anyone who has staff to deal with as it sets out simply and practically how to manage your company's most important asset--its people. This is the seventh edition of this manual and the author has included new chapters on the employment relationship, selection interviewing, performance management and organisational culture. --Kristen Bowditch

The latest edition of this outstanding textbook has been fully revised to take account of the current syllabus of the Institute of Personnel and Development (IPD) and is essential reading for all those studying for the IPD Diploma.

Retitled and presented in an enlarged, easy-to-read format, the books is as comprehensive and detailed as ever. It is now organized into eight parts:
-- personnel and development management
-- personnel, development and HRM processes and activities
-- organizational behaviour, design and development
-- resourcing
-- employee development
-- employee reward
-- health, safety and welfare
-- employment and personnel services.

The latest edition of this outstanding textbook has been fully revised to take account of the current syllabus of the Institute of Personnel and Development (IPD)and is essential reading for all those studying for the IPD Diploma. Retitled and presented in an enlarged, easier-to-read format, the book is as comprehensive and detailed as ever, covering the entire span of HRM practice.

Michael Armstrong is a Fellow of, and Chief Examiner (Employee Reward) for, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. He is an independent management consultant and the author of many best-selling titles published by Kogan Page, including HRM: Strategy and Action, Managing People, Reward Management (with Helen Murlis) and Paying for Contribution (with Duncan Brown). --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.