Human Resource Management

Human Resource Management Functions, Applications, and Skill Development


SAGE Publications, Inc
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Contents
 
Part 1: 21st Century Human Resource Management Strategic Planning and Legal Issues
 
Chapter 1: The New Human Resource Management Process
Why Study Human Resource Management (HRM)?

 
HRM Past and Present

 
21st Century HRM

 
HRM Skills

 
Line Managers’ HRM Responsibilities

 
HR Managers’ Responsibilities: Disciplines Within HRM

 
HRM Careers

 
Practitioner’s Model for HRM

 
Trends and Issues in HRM

 
 
Chapter 2: Strategy-Driven Human Resource Management
Strategy and strategic planning in the 21st century

 
The External Environment

 
Strategy

 
Structure

 
Culture

 
An Introduction to Data Analytics for HRM

 
Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS)

 
Measurement tools for strategic HRM

 
Trends and Issues in HRM

 
 
Chapter 3: The Legal Environment and Diversity Management
The Legal Environment for HRM – Protecting Your Organization

 
A User’s Guide to Managing People – The OUCH Test

 
Major Employment Laws

 
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)

 
EEO, Affirmative Action and Diversity – What’s the Difference?

 
Sexual Harassment – A Special Type of Discrimination

 
Religious Discrimination

 
Trends and Issues in HRM

 
 
Part 2: Staffing
 
Chapter 4: Matching Employees and Jobs – Job Analysis and Design
Employee and Job Matching

 
Workflow Analysis

 
Job Analysis

 
Job Design/Redesign

 
Designing Motivational Jobs

 
HR Forecasting

 
Reconciling internal labor supply and demand

 
Succession Planning

 
Trends and Issues in HRM

 
 
Chapter 5: Recruiting Job Candidates
The Recruiting Process

 
Organizational Recruiting Considerations

 
Internal or External Recruiting?

 
Challenges and Constraints in Recruiting

 
Evaluation of Recruiting Programs

 
Trends and Issues in HRM

 
 
Chapter 6: Selecting New Employees
The Selection Process

 
Looking for “Fit”

 
Uniform Guidelines on Employment Selection Procedures

 
Applications and Preliminary Screening

 
Testing and Legal Issues

 
Selection Interviews

 
Background Checks

 
Selecting the Candidate and Offering the Job

 
Trends and Issues in HRM

 
 
Part 3: Developing and Managing
 
Chapter 7: Training, Learning, Talent Management and Development
The Need for Training and Development

 
The Training Process and Needs Assessment

 
Learning and Shaping Behavior

 
Design and Delivery of Training

 
Assessing Training

 
Talent Management and Development

 
Trends and Issues in HRM

 
 
Chapter 8: Performance Management and Appraisal
Performance Management Systems

 
Why Do We Conduct Performance Appraisals?

 
What Do We Assess?

 
How Do We Use Appraisal Methods and Forms?

 
Who Should Assess Performance?

 
Performance Appraisal Problems

 
Debriefing the Appraisal

 
Trends and Issues in HRM

 
 
Chapter 9: Rights and Employee Management
Managing and Leading Your Workforce

 
Commonly Accepted Employee Rights

 
Management Rights

 
Coaching, Counseling and Discipline

 
Leadership, Management and Change

 
Trends and Issues in HRM

 
 
Chapter 10: Employee and Labor Relations
Labor Relations: A Function of Trust and Communication

 
Job Satisfaction

 
Legal Issues in Labor Relations

 
Unions and Labor Rights

 
Management Rights and Decertification Elections

 
Managing Conflict

 
Negotiations

 
Trends and Issues in HRM

 
 
Part 4: Compensating
 
Chapter 11: Compensation Management
Compensation Management

 
Organizational Philosophy

 
Legal and Fairness Issues in Compensation

 
Job Evaluation

 
Developing a Pay System

 
Trends and Issues in HRM

 
 
Chapter 12 Incentive Pay
Why Do We Use Incentive Pay?

 
Individual or Group-based Incentives?

 
Options for Individual Incentives

 
Options for Group Incentives

 
Failure, Challenges, and Guidelines in Creating Incentive Pay Systems

 
Executive Compensation

 
Trends and Issues in HRM

 
 
Chapter 13: Employee Benefits
Statutory Benefits

 
Voluntary Benefits

 
Administration and Communication of Benefits

 
Trends and Issues in HRM

 
 
Part 5: Protecting and Expanding Organizational Reach
 
Chapter 14: Workplace Safety, Health, and Security
Workplace Safety and OSHA

 
Employee Health

 
Stress

 
Workplace Security

 
Trends and Issues in HRM

 
 
Chapter 15: Organizational Ethics, Sustainability and Social Responsibility
Ethical Organizations

 
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

 
Sustainability

 
Trends and Issues in HRM

 
 
Chapter 16: Global Issues for Human Resource Managers
Globalization of Business and HRM

 
Legal, Ethical and Cultural Issues

 
Global Staffing

 
Developing and Managing Global Human Resources

 
Compensating Your Global Workforce

 
Trends and Issues in HRM

 
Independent Customer Reviews

“Human Resource Management offers something different. This book goes far beyond giving just the facts.  Students are immediately able to apply what they cover in the text with application and skill builder exercises.”

Susie Cox
McNeese State University

“Well-written, easy to read, and full of practical examples, Lussier and Hendon is a must-read for today’s HR student.”

Charles Gorman
Virginia Polytechnic Institution and State University

“This HRM textbook has the best pedagogical features I have ever seen. The pedagogical aids, applications, and skill-building activities make the textbook unique in its ability to promote active learning and skill-building.”

Herve Queneau
Brooklyn College-CUNY

“Lussier and Hendon’s text on Human Resource Management is on the “cutting edge” of twenty first century knowledge for the professional HR executive, management personnel and an owner of a business.”

Jerry Sellentin
University of Nebraska

“An excellent source to curious minds…Covers HR topics thoroughly and engagingly.”

Ghadir Ishqaidef
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
Contributors: 

Robert N. Lussier

Robert N. Lussier is a professor of management at Springfield College and taught management for more than 35 years. He is a prolific writer, with more than 500 publications to his credit. His articles have been published in the Academy of Entrepreneurship Journal, Business Horizons, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Family Business Review, Journal of Business Strategies, Journal of Management Education, Journal of Small Business Management, Journal of Small Business Strategy, SAM Advanced Management Journal, and several others. He also has a human resources management textbook (with John Hendon) published by SAGE and other textbooks.

More than two million people globally have used his textbooks, earning him an unsurpassed national and international reputation as an author and keynote speaker. Dr. Lussier is the founder of Publish Don’t Perish (www.publishdonotperish.com) and through contact, his Publish Don’t Perish: The Top Secrets to Get Published book, and workshops has helped hundreds of institutions and individuals in 80-plus countries get published. His presentations inspire comments like: “Bob explains complex business topics in an easy-to-understand language while keeping his audience engaged and spellbound” (Dr. Raj V. Mahto, professor, University of New Mexico)

Dr. Lussier also consults to a wide array of commercial and nonprofit organizations. In fact, some of the material in the book was developed for such clients as Baystate Medical Center, Coca-Cola, Friendly’s Ice Cream, National Institute of Financial Education, Mead, Monsanto, Smith & Wesson, the Social Security Administration, the Visiting Nurse Association, and YMCAs.

Dr. Lussier holds a bachelor of science in business administration from Salem State College, master’s degrees in business and education from Suffolk University (AACSB accredited), and a doctorate in management from the University of New Haven (AACSB MBA accredited, prior to doctoral accreditation).

John R. Hendon

John R. Hendon is a seven-time entrepreneur and former director of operations for a $60 million company. He brought his experience and interests to the classroom full time in 1994 and has been a Management faculty member at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock for over 17 years. An active member of the Society for Human Resource Management, he teaches in the areas of Human Resources Management, Strategy, and Organizational Management, and researches in a number of areas in the Management field, specializing in Entrepreneurial research. John is also currently the President of “The VMP Group,” an Arkansas-based business consulting firm. John’s company consults with a variety of businesses on human resources, family business, strategic planning, organizational design, and leadership. He has provided professional assistance in the start-up and operation of dozens of Arkansas and California-based businesses and non-profits, government agencies, and utilities. John holds an MBA degree from San Diego State University and a BS in Education from the University of Central Arkansas.