Human Resource Management

As competitors strive to win the war for talent, effective human resource management is necessary to gain true competitive advantage in the marketplace. Three challenges companies face are sustainability, technology, and globalization. Human Resource Management 5th Edition brings these challenges to life by highlighting real-world examples pertaining to these issues and relating it to the concepts within the chapter. This best-selling McGraw-Hill/Irwin Human Resource Management title provides students with the technical background needed to be a knowledgeable consumer of human resource (HR) products and services, to manage HR effectively, or to be a successful HR professional. While clearly strategic in nature, the text also emphasizes how managers can more effectively acquire, develop, compensate, and manage the internal and external environment that relates to the management of human resources."Competing through Sustainability" boxes are included in the chapters. Challenges to sustainability include the ability to deal with economic and social changes, engage in responsible and ethical business practices, provide high quality products and services, and develop methods to determine if the company is meeting stakeholder needs. These boxes discuss how companies succeed in a competitive environment considering aspects of social responsibility like environmental and employment issues. |"Strategic Use of HRM" - this is a new highlighted element within the chapter content that contains examples of how real companies have developed or executed competitive HR strategies to create value.|"Exercising Strategy" sections at the end of the chapters provide additional cases with discussion questions. The examples pose strategic questions based on real-life practices.|Self-Assessment Exercises at the end of the chapters provide a brief exercise for students to complete and evaluate their own skills.|Manager's Hot Seat Exercises are now included in the text at the end of most chapters. These individual and group exercises correspond to the Manager's Hot Seat DVD video segments. The segments highlight scenarios that are critical to HR success. This interactive DVD is available as an optional package for students for an additional $5 using ISBN: 0073586293.|The student CD-ROM content has been moved to the Online Learning Center www.mhhe.com/noe5e. Students will find extensive chapter review questions, self-assessment exercises, and flashcards to review key terms. |Two boxes - "Competing through Globalization" and "Competing through Technology" - are found in every chapter and provide excellent real-business examples to underscore key concepts throughout the text.|"Finding and Keeping the Best Employees" is a highlighted element within the chapter text containing current information on the methods that companies use to find and keep the best employees. |End-of-chapter sections entitled "A Look Back" ask students questions about the opening vignettes, which contain real business problems and issues, after they have read the chapter to provoke critical thinking and reinforce the concepts presented in the chapter.|End-of-chapter BusinessWeek cases look at incidents and real companies as reported by Business Week and encourage students to critically evaluate the problem and apply the chapter concepts.|End-of-part video cases - the videos are new to this edition, but the purpose remains the same - the video cases and accompanying questions challenge students to view HR issues and problems from multiple perspectives.|Learning objectives at the beginning of each chapter inform students about what they should understand after reading through the chapter.|Key terms are highlighted and defined in the margin in order to help students learn the language of HRM.|McGraw-Hill's Knowledge Gateway - The Complete Resource for Teaching Online Courses. 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