This book presents the knowledge a appropriate for a first course in human resource management (HRM) for students of general management - individuals who are or will be assessing, designing/purchasing, delivering, and evaluating management systems for their own organizations or the business units of the companies for which they work. Management systems are the interrelated procedures, practices, and processed needed to accomplish specified goals and objectives in a farm.



Contents :

Part I. Understanding behavior in organization : Basic theoritical orientations

Part II. Human resource systems : what the general manager should know

Part III. Aligning human resource systems with business strategy

Part IV. Designing human resource systems for specific business situations

After completing this book, you should be better able to describe the domain of HRM practices available to contemporary organizations; analyze business situations and choose HRM options that fit your organizations' business goals, culture, and environmental circumstances; recognze when a set of HRM practices is likely to affect classes of employee behaviors in dysfunctional ways; evaluate the quality of HRM practices and services from a cost-benefit and legal perspective; and intelligently interact with, use and assist HR staff specialists and HR consultants who attempt to support your business objectives. This is all designed to make you a better and more informed consumer of the services provided by staff professionals in your current of future companies and by the consulting firms working in the area of change management and hRM. As you become a more informed consumer you also will become a manager who has the capability to introduce the changes need to continuously improve the management systems that influence behavior at work. We believe that your success as a manager and business leader in contemporary organizations will largerly be a function of your ability to compete for, retain, and properly manage talented employees.