This core textbook, edited by five leading scholars of the subject, provides a comprehensive overview of the key topics, debates and themes in this increasingly important field. Balancing research-led theory with industry best-practice to provide students with a definitive overview of HRD, the book draws on the international experience of its authors to tackle topics as diverse as leadership and managing development, change and diversity, workplace learning, and graduate employability. The book’s approachable yet thorough writing style and lively presentation helps students to understand the topic from a critical perspective while also demonstrating how HRD plays out in reality. This is an essential textbook for undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA students of Human Resource Development on HRD or Business and Management degree programmes.

Human Resource Development: Theory and Practice

Business & Money

Gold, Jeff

Iles, Paul

Holden, Rick

Business Culture

Red Globe Press

Managing Staff Selection and Assessment (Managing Work and Organizations Series)

This text aims to provide an approach to managing staff selection and assessment in organizations. It discusses not only the dominant psychometric model, but also draws upon perspectives from strategic management theory, social psychology and critical theory. Further discussions explore developments, both in the UK and internationally, and provide specific organizational case studies and describe recent research findings and their implications for organizational practice. The book locates techniques and procedures in the contexts of corporate strategy, structure and culture and shows how organizations have sought to use assessment strategy in the search for competitive advantage: recruiting, selecting, appraising and developing staff in order to bring about organizational and cultural change. The book concludes by applying its frameworks to an area of key significance - the identification, assessment and development of managerial competence.

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Open University Press

Management & Leadership

Open Univ Pr

Managing Learning

In the last decade there has been a discernible shift away from a preoccupation with the methods and technologies for delivering training in organizations, to an emphasis on those approaches and attitudes that encourage learning. An emphasis on acquiring skills and knowledge on training courses has been superseded by the need to be applying them in the workplace. Earlier concerns with measuring and assessing have moved the transfer and reinforcement of learning. The focus is now on learning through reframing problems, self-determined development, unfreezing barriers to learning, and understanding what it means to be a learning organization. It is not that `learning' has been without its advocates, rather that the notion seems finally to have come of age. This collection of readings captures the depth and diversity of the learning literature over the past 10 years. Some authors look back for their inspiration to seminal work on personal and corporate learning; all look forward with their own compelling mix of role-models, recipes and recommendations to guide organizational learning in the future.

Mabey, Christopher

Cengage Learning EMEA

This text covers the integration of human resource strategies (HRS) within corporate objectives. The authors combine current theory and practice to show that it is vital for organizations of all sizes and sectors to have a human resource strategy for success of the organization. The text is international in outlook and contains clear, boxed guides to chapter topics, activity and revision questions, introductions to chapter structure and content and summaries at the end of each chapter. Major case studies and many international examples are used throughout to illustrate the theory of human resource strategies. The text is accompanied by a comprehensive Instructor's Manual including lecture notes, acetate masters, chapter objectives and summaries, questions and answers.

Strategic Human Resource Management

Salaman, Graeme

Blackwell Pub.

Changing Patterns of Management Development (Management, Organizations and Business)

Written in a highly accessible style by a small distinguished team, this is a wide-ranging account of the whole subject of management development, underpinned by the most extensive data set ever made available.

Storey, John

Gray, Colin S.

Thomson, Andrew

Wiley/Blackwell

The Changing Organization provides a multidisciplinary approach for studying the management of change under conditions of complexity. Single-discipline approaches frequently miss essential elements that reduce the possibility of coherence within a multi-agency organizational setting. Combining a systems and cybernetic 'living system' perspective, Guo, Yolles, Fink, and Iles offer a new agency paradigm designed to model, diagnose and analyse complex, real-world situations. Its capacity to anticipate patterns of behaviour provides useful means by which the origin of crises can be understood, and resolutions reflected upon. Scholars and graduate students in fields as diverse as management, politics, anthropology and psychology will find numerous applications for this book when considering socio-political and organizational change, and it offers an invaluable guide for consultants who may wish to apply advanced techniques of contextual analysis to real-world situations.

The Changing Organization: Agency Theory in a Cross-Cultural Context

Guo, Kaijun

Yolles, Maurice

Fink, Gerhard

Processes & Infrastructure

Cambridge University Press

International Human Resource Management is an essential book for all students and HR professionals looking to really understand international HRM. Covering the context of International HRM, HRM and National Culture, HRM in different regions and international HRM policies, this book provides thorough discussion and comprehensive consideration of all elements of international HRM, 
Full of contributions from experts in specific regions including North America, the Middle East and North Africa, India, Russia and China, this book will provide readers with a thorough understanding of HRM around the world. With crucial coverage of international HRM issues including cross-cultural leadership, business ethics, global talent supply and management as well as performance management of international staff, International Human Resource Management is essential reading for all those working or looking to work in HR around the world, particularly those looking to work in multinational companies. Fully supported by online resources including powerpoint slides, a lecturer guide, additional case studies and a bonus chapter on issues and new directions in International Human Resource Management as well as annotated web links and self-test questions for students.

International Human Resource Management: A Cross-Cultural and Comparative Approach (Cipd Publications)

Zhang, Crystal L

International

CIPD - Kogan Page

This collection of readings and prayers for use in preparing for Christmas, will help to develop and strengthen our openness to God and our knowledge of his presence with us in Christ. Part One covers the season of 'N Advent, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day; Part Two covers the twelve Days of Christmas and leads into the New Year.

Approaching Light: Readings and Prayers for Advent and Christmas

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Hymns Ancient & Modern Ltd

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