Human Resource Management, 16th edition, provides students in human resource
management courses and practicing managers with a complete and practical
introduction to modern human resource management concepts and techniques in
a highly readable form. This book has always emphasized giving all managers the
skills they need to do their jobs. And today, with employers transferring more
HR tasks to line managers, it’s more important than ever that all managers—not
just HR managers—be skilled in human resource management concepts and
techniques. As the following figure sums up, you’ll therefore find an emphasis
here on the practical material you need to perform your day-to-day management
responsibilities, even if you never spend one day as an HR manager.
This book’s Strategic HR features give students a
bird’s-eye view of how all the topics in each chapter
fit together, and a tool instructors can use to illustrate these interrelationships.