Managing Human Resources Through Strategic Partnerships, 8e allows readers to capture the excitement of this dynamic field in an interactive and tightly integrated text. Managing human resources effectively requires mutual understanding and collaboration among HR professionals, managers, and all other employees. In this edition, the authors encourage such collaboration by clearly presenting principles for effectively managing human resources and also explaining the different HR roles and responsibilities of the three primary HR partners. Together, these HR partners can develop and implement an approach to human resource management that satisfies the needs of the organization as well as the multiple external stakeholders who ultimately determine its success.



About the Author

Susan E. Jackson is Professor of Human Resource Management in the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University, where she also serves as Graduate Director for the Doctoral Program in Industrial Relations and Human Resources. Prior to joining Rutgers, she taught on the faculties of New York University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Maryland. She received her B.A. in psychology and sociology from the University of Minnesota and her Master?s and Ph.D. in organizational psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. Her primary area of expertise is the strategic management of human resources, and her special interests include managing team effectiveness, workforce diversity, and the design of human resource management systems to support knowledge-based organizations. She has authored or co-authored over 100 articles on these and related topics. In addition, she has published several books, including Managing Knowledge for Sustained Competitive Advantage: Designing Strategies for Effective Human Resource Management (with M. A. Hitt and A. S. DeNisi), Managing Human Resources in Cross-border Alliances (with R. S. Schuler and Y. Luo), Human Resources: A Partnership Perspective (with R.S. Schuler), Strategic Human Resource Management (with R.S. Schuler), Diversity in the Workplace: Human Resource Initiatives, and Creating Tomorrow?s Organizations: A Handbook for Future Research in Organizational Behavior (with C.L. Cooper). She currently serves as a member of the editorial boards for Academy of Management Journal, Applied Psychology: An International Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Organizational Dynamics, Journal of Service Research, and Human Resource Management Journal.