Human Resource Management Books

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41. Self-Initiated Expatriation

    Individual, Organizational, and National Perspectives

    Edited by Maike Andresen, Akram Al Ariss, Matthias Walther

    Series: Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy

    Globalization and the development of multinational organizations have led to an increase in the number of people spending part of their lives living and working in foreign countries. While the contemporary literature has focused on organizational expatriates sent overseas by their employers,...

    Published September 5th 2012 by Routledge
42. International Health and Safety at Work

    for the NEBOSH International General Certificate, 2nd Edition

    By Phil Hughes, Ed Ferrett

    The second edition of International Health and Safety at Work has been specially written in simple English for the thousands of students who complete the NEBOSH International Certificate in Health and Safety each year. Fully updated and matched to the March 2011 syllabus, this course book...

    Published August 29th 2012 by Routledge
43. Critical Histories of Accounting

    Sinister Inscriptions in the Modern Era

    Edited by Richard K. Fleischman, Warwick Funnell, Stephen Walker

    Series: Routledge New Works in Accounting History

    The critical tradition in accounting historiography has come to occupy a prominent place in the discipline’s academic scholarship. Some critical literature has confronted the responsibility of accounting and accountants in precipitating contemporary crises, such as the audit failures that spawned...

    Published August 7th 2012 by Routledge
44. The Right Measures

    The Story of a Company’s Journey to Find the True Indicators of Its Success and Values

    By Mark A. Nash, Sheila R. Poling

    Organizational measures are the foundational building blocks that shape an organization’s vision and action. All too often however, these measures do not receive the attention they deserve. In addition, it is common for organizations to overact and measure too much, resulting in the same results as...

    Published August 6th 2012 by Productivity Press
45. Managing Healthy Organizations

    Worksite Health Promotion and the New Self-Management Paradigm

    By Mikael Holmqvist, Christian Maravelias

    Series: Routledge Studies in Human Resource Development

    During the past two decades, corporate management has come to take an active role in health promotion programming for employees, offering health education, screenings, therapy, and even leisure initiatives. However, little attention has been given to how contemporary worksite health programs in...

    Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
46. New Frontiers in HRD

    Edited by Monica Lee, Jim Stewart, Jean Woodall

    Series: Routledge Studies in Human Resource Development

    Factors such as globalisation, restructuring, casualization of employment and the erosion of pension rights have led to massive tensions in contemporary organizations. By exploring the boundaries of the field of Human Resource Development this book asks where is HRD in the middle of all this and...

    Published July 25th 2012 by Routledge
47. The Workforce Engagement Equation

    A Practitioner’s Guide to Creating and Sustaining High Performance

    By Jamison J. Manion

    The Workforce Engagement Equation is for the hands-on leaders engaged in the frontline of affecting change—those who bear the scars of past failed initiatives yet continue to persevere. Describing the science behind the "Art of Managing" process improvement, it will help you bridge the gap between...

    Published July 19th 2012 by Productivity Press
48. The Psychology of Assessment Centers

    Edited by Duncan Jackson, Charles Lance, Brian Hoffman

    Research on the reliability and validity of assessment centers (ACs) has been ongoing for at least 50 years and continues to this day. The assessment center method is a technique or process that is used to assess individual performance and potential. One of the most heavily researched topics...

    Published June 14th 2012 by Routledge
49. Sexualities, Work and Organizations

    By James Ward

    Series: Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context

    Sexuality is arguably the most under-researched of all diversity areas in work organizations. This book brings together and relates stories of minority sexual identity from six organizations drawn from three different industry sectors: the Emergency Services, the Civil Service and the Banking...

    Published June 13th 2012 by Routledge
50. Human Resource Management in Construction

    Critical Perspectives, 2nd Edition

    Edited by Andrew Dainty, Martin Loosemore

    The construction sector is one of the most complex and problematic arenas within which to manage people. As a result, the applicability of much mainstream human resource management (HRM) theory to this industry is limited. Indeed, the operational realities faced by construction organizations mean...

    Published June 12th 2012 by Routledge