For undergraduate or graduate courses on human resource management; also appropriate for brief executive development courses or as a supplementary text for courses in which other topics are combined with HRM. This brief yet lucid ten-chapter text provides students and practicing managers with a review of central human resource management concepts and techniques in a highly readable and understandable format. For undergraduate or graduate courses on human resource management; also appropriate for brief executive development courses or as a supplementary text for courses in which other topics are combined with HRM. This brief yet lucid ten-chapter text provides students and practicing managers with a review of central human resource management concepts and techniques in a highly readable and understandable format. Q. Would you like your students to have a brief text that covers all of the important topics in Human Resource Management? Dessler provides a concise review for students of the essential topics to Human Resource Management. Q. Are most of your students going to pursue another career than Human Resource Management? Dessler focuses on all managers need to understand core HR concepts and techniques. Q. Are you covering more Strategic HR in your course? Dessler has added coverage of Strategic HR in this new edition. Q. Are you using HRIS in your course? Dessler has added a section covering this topic.