Human Resource Management

Contemporary Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities

Ronald R. Sims

• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Year: 2006
• Print ISBN:
  9781593115258
  9781593115265
• eBook ISBN:
  9781607527114
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Human Resource Management
• Index: Business

The contributors in this book identify and clearly discuss contemporary and critical issues, challenges and opportunities in HRM. The book attempts to achieve the delicate balance between basic HRM functions, and the new world of HRM. Moreover, in a dynamic field like HRM, a complete look at contemporary HRM issues, challenges, and opportunities is a must for today's and tomorrow's students and future manages and leaders. After all, it is important for any book to undertake a current state of the field while also bridging the gap of traditional HRM activities (i.e., issues, challenges and opportunities) and the possible future state of the HRM field. An organizing principle for this book is the need to for an integrated HRM system, comprised of multiple activities, designed to influence organizational and employee behaviors. The books contributors include some basic theories and models that simultaneously consider how HRM activities like recruitment, selection, reward practices, and development activities among others are being impacted by contemporary issues, challenges and opportunities for the field of HRM, particularly HRM functions and professional as they are increasingly expected to play a role in enabling organizational managers and other employees to achieve desired organizational results. Thus, the essence of the book is that the collective chapters reflect both a functional orientation built on theory and models but also provide insights into how to translate theory into practice via the establishment of the increasingly critical role HRM procedures, practices, and processes play in accomplishing the goals and objectives in contemporary organizations.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Human Resource Management
• Series Page
• Human Resource Management: Contemporary Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities
• Copyright Page
• CONTENTS
• PREFACE
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• I: HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENTAND ITS ENVIRONMENT
• 1: EFFECTIVE HUMANRESOURCES MANAGEMENT
• 2: PUBLIC SECTOR HRM
• 3: THE LEGAL STATUS OFAFFIRMATIVE ACTION INEMPLOYMENT
• 4: TOWARD SUCCESSFULINTERNATIONAL HUMANRESOURCES MANAGEMENT
• II: STAFFING THE ORGANIZATION
• 5: RECRUITING STRONGAPPLICANTS
• 6: A NEW LOOK AT OLD TOOLS
• 7: STRATEGIC STAFFING
• 8: ORGANIZATIONAL REALITIESAND THE ROLE OF HRM INMAXIMIZING PERFORMANCE
• III: DEVELOPING HUMAN RESOURCES
• 9: FOSTERING AN ETHICALCULTURE FOR BUSINESS
• 10: SOCIALIZING EMPLOYEES
• 11: RETAINING INTELLECTUALCAPITAL
• 12: HUMAN RESOURCEDEVELOPMENT
• 13: LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENTAND STRATEGIC HRAT A CROSSROADS
• 14: HUMAN RESOURCEMANAGEMENT AND CAREERMANAGEMENT ANDDEVELOPMENT
• IV: COMPENSATION
• 15: COMPENSATION
• 16: TRADITIONAL PAY IN PUBLICORGANIZATIONS
• 17: EMPLOYEE BENEFITS
• V: EMERGING HRM ISSUES, CHALLENGES,AND OPPORTUNITIES
• 18: ORGANIZATIONALDEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE
• 19: RATIONALE FOR ANHRM-ETHIC AND ITSINCLUSION AS ATHEORETICAL FOUNDATION
• 20: A LOOK AT CONTEMPORARYHUMAN RESOURCEMANAGEMENT INFORMATIONSYSTEMS
• 21: CHRONIC HEALTH ISSUES
• 22: THE CHANGING MISSION OFHRM IN HEALTH CAREORGANIZATIONS
• ABOUT THE AUTHORS