NEW BOOK: Rowley/ Jackson, Human Resource Management (a key concepts approach)
Colleagues,
I have seen the new Chris Rowley [Director--Center for Research in Asian Mgt at Cass, City U., c.rowley@city.ac.uk ] & Keith Jackson [University of London], Human Resource Management: The Key Concepts tome. And, I am ready to recommend that you burn the preponderance of textbooks on the shelf over your desk and get and delve into this as one to learn your learners from.
What I like about it: it is READABLE so the students can grasp it all (what Rowley-Jackson call "the main practices and theories") and proceed without getting their doctorates first! AND, it is very 2nd decade of the 21st century-esque with fresh/current, useful and even DISCUSSABLE-IN-CLASS-esque ideas, cases, and examples. Each of the 50 main HRM concepts are presented in entries of variable length. (Hey some HR areas warrant more explanation than others!) About 20 are done by the others and 30 by the usual suspects (internationally sourced!) The main areas covered by the book are: Employee Resourcing, Employee Rewards Employee Development, Employee Relations and Emerging Issues (you know, diversity management, best practices, international aspects of HRM, HR outsourcing and strategic approaches to HRM, etc.). There is a useful "How to use this book" section (which is the remedy to the alphabetical presentation of the concepts!) So if you are a student looking under rewards you will find the 10 related rewards-related concepts-ranging from "compensation strategies", and then [in alphabetical order again eight others] ending with the concept "valuing work". At the end of each concept, the related entries in the book are cross-referenced so the learners don't get cross trying to figure that out. About 5 or 10 further readings are provided for those students who wish to bolster their knowledge of particular concepts. As you would expect from Chris Rowley particularly-it is not just UK/US-centric but is flush with Asian and other very important national examples from panoply of industries and organizational contexts.
ISBN: 978-0-415-44043-1
Info on the book: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415440431/
Examination copy for your shelf:
http://www.routledge.com/resources/complimentary_exam_copy_request/9780415440431/
Best regards,
Charles Wankel
St. John's University, New York
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