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Human Resource Management: Text and Cases, 5/e

K Aswathappa, Acharya Inst of Management & Sciences, Bangalore

ISBN: 0070660204
Copyright year: 2008

An indispensable text for all business management and commerce students & teachers, and a useful reference resource for professionals.

This edition brings in many new developments in the area of HRM. A new running feature called Pause and Ponder, interspersed across the text, will motivate the readers to think about the real issue or concept which they have learnt in the preceding pages, before they move on to the next topic. This edition contains many new cases and examples, and up-to-date data.

New and expanded topics in this edition:

  • e-HRM
  • Human Capital Management
  • Strategic HRM
  • Career Planning and Development
  • Remuneration of Special Groups
  • Calculation of Cost of an Accident
  • Irrelevance of Unions
  • Myths about Ethics
  • Training of Host Country Nationals
  • Multiculturalism
  • Rightsizing
  • Balanced Scorecard
  • HRM in M&As, and in High Performing Organizations
  • HR as a Change Agent
  • Pedagogical Features:

  • Learning Objectives
  • Chapter Opening Cases
  • Pause of Ponder
  • Chapter Summary
  • Key Terms
  • Review Questions
  • Discussion Questions
  • Chapter Closing Cases


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