Human Resource Management Books

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51. Solution Focused Coaching in Practice

    By Bill O'Connell, Stephen Palmer, Helen Williams

    Series: Essential Coaching Skills and Knowledge

    Solution Focused Coaching in Practice is a practical ‘how-to’ guide that provides an invaluable overview of Solution Focused Coaching skills and techniques. Reflecting upon published research on the solution focused approach, Bill O’Connell, Stephen Palmer and Helen Williams bring their own...

    Published June 6th 2012 by Routledge
52. Improving Organizational Interventions For Stress and Well-Being

    Addressing Process and Context

    Edited by Caroline Biron, Maria Karanika-Murray, Cary Cooper

    This book brings together a number of experts in the field of organizational interventions for stress and well-being, and discusses the importance of process and context issues to the success or failure of such interventions. The book explores how context and process can be incorporated into...

    Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge
53. Men, Wage Work and Family

    Edited by Paula McDonald, Emma Jeanes

    Series: Routledge Research in Employment Relations

    In the last two decades there has been a plethora of research on a range of subjects collectively and rhetorically known as ‘work-life balance’. The bulk of this research, which spans disciplines including feminist sociology, industrial relations and management, has focused on the significant...

    Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge
54. Outsourcing and Human Resource Management

    An International Survey

    Edited by Ruth Taplin

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia

    Outsourcing is an increasingly popular strategy deployed by a variety of institutions, including banks, multinational companies and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The book assesses the problems and solutions for those attempting to outsource through an analysis of human resource...

    Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
55. Pre-Employment Background Investigations for Public Safety Professionals

    By Frank A. Colaprete

    Pre-employment investigations have been the subject of intense review and debate since 9/11 made the vetting of applicants a critical function of every organization. Nowhere has the scrutiny been more intense than in the public safety sector. Pre-Employment Background Investigations for Public...

    Published May 9th 2012 by CRC Press
56. Managing Corporate Values in Diverse National Cultures

    The Challenge of Differences

    By Philippe d'Iribarne

    Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

    How should a Western company manage cross-culturally corporate values in its foreign subsidiaries? Do these values make sense everywhere and can they assumed to be universal or, on the contrary, are they culturally Western specific? Philippe d’Iribarne provides answers to these timely and urgent...

    Published May 7th 2012 by Routledge
57. Society and HRM in China

    Edited by Malcolm Warner

    This volume looks at the relationship between society and human resource management (HRM) in China. In doing so it asks how representative the latter is of the former. The contributors argue that there needs to be a minimum degree of consonance between these two variables if HRM is to be...

    Published May 2nd 2012 by Routledge
58. 'Making Sense' of Human Resource Management in China

    Economy, Enterprises and Workers

    Edited by Malcolm Warner

    This edited work attempts to ‘make sense’ of recent developments in the field of Human Resource Management in the People’s Republic of China. It attempts to see how the paradoxes and contradictions engendered by contemporary Chinese society are being resolved in the enterprises and workplaces of...

    Published April 22nd 2012 by Routledge
59. Understanding Complexity in Organizations

    Behavioral Systems

    Edited by Timothy Ludwig, Ramona Houmanfar

    Organizations are complex entities that must adapt the practices of their employees and management to meet the demands of a dynamic environment. Organizations are behavioral systems that coordinate interactions among its members and environment. Changing practices in one area of an organization can...

    Published April 22nd 2012 by Routledge
60. Trade Unions and Workplace Training

    Issues and International Perspectives

    Edited by Richard Cooney, Mark Stuart

    Series: Routledge Research in Employment Relations

    Trade Unions and Workplace Training examines the changing role of trade unions in the provision of vocational education, workplace training and skill development. It reflects upon: the role that unions have played in the reform of vocational education and training systems; the nature of union...

    Published April 17th 2012 by Routledge