<h4>Offer your students a thorough review of the contemporary issues and debates surrounding Human Resource Management.</h4> <p><strong>Human Resource Management,</strong> 8<sup>th</sup> edition is an essential learning tool for your students who prepare for a future career in the field of HRM.</p> <p>Highly engaging and readable, the text seeks to raise critical awareness of HRM through its chapters, combining research-informed theory with practical insights into the subject.</p> <p>From globalisation and BREXIT to the green agenda, the textbook provides a range of topics and features that will encourage your students to develop their critical thinking skills, making it an ideal resource to support your teaching requirements for the course.</p>

<div class="c-section-headers-number-list_container"> <h3>Brief Contents</h3> <h4 class="h5">Guided tour</h4> <h4 class="h5">Preface</h4> <h4 class="h5">Plan of the book</h4> <h4 class="h5">How to use this book</h4> <h4 class="h5">Contributors</h4> <h4 class="h5">Acknowledgments</h4> <h3 class="h4">Part 1 Human Resource Management and its Organisational Context</h3> <h4 class="h5">Introduction to Part 1</h4> <ol> <li>An Introduction to Human Resource Management</li> <li>Strategic Human Resource Management</li> <li>Contextualising HRM</li> </ol> <h3 class="h4">Part 2 Resourcing the Organisation</h3> <h4 class="h5">Introduction to Part 2</h4> <ol start="4"> <li>HRM and the Labour Market</li> <li>Talent Management</li> <li>Managing Equality and Diversity</li> </ol> <h3 class="h4">Part 3 Developing the Human Resource</h3> <h4 class="h5">Introduction to Part 3</h4> <ol start="7"> <li>Learning and Development</li> <li>Leadership and Management Development</li> <li>Organisational Development</li> </ol> <h3 class="h4">Part 4 The Employment Relationship</h3> <ol start="10"> <li>The Employment Relationship and Employee Rights at Work</li> <li>Employment</li> <li>Performance Management</li> <li>Employee Reward</li> <li>Employee Voice</li> </ol> <h3 class="h4">Part 5 Comparative Human Resource Management</h3> <ol start="15"> <li>Comparative HRM in the Context of Financialization, Financial Crisis and Brexit</li> <li>Employment Relations in Emerging Economies: China and India</li> </ol> <h4 class="h5">Glossary of terms and abbreviations</h4> <h4 class="h5">Index</h4> </div>

<h4>Get a contemporary perspective on the issues and debates surrounding Human Resource Management.</h4> <p><strong>Human Resource Management,</strong> 8<sup>th</sup> edition is a highly engaging and readable textbook that seeks to raise critical awareness of HRM through its chapters, combining research-informed theory with practical insights into the subject.</p> <p>From globalisation and BREXIT to the green agenda, the text examines the most up-to-date, contemporary issues and their impact on the operation of HRM.</p> <p>With a range of issues to encourage your critical thinking and understanding of the topics, this book provides the resources you need to prepare for your future career in the field.</p>

<p>Beardwell &amp; Thompson&#8217;s text offers a critical, social-science focused approach to HRM which caters for the students studying HRM at the higher level of undergraduate as well as being suited to those on MBA and postgraduate courses. This text has a specialised International HRM section, which gives it a competitive edge over others, and makes it suitable for a wider range of courses. It is also mapped closely to the relevant CIPD modules, and is edited and authored by academics who are heavily involved with the CIPD.</p>

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    <li>Chapter 1: An Introduction to Human Resource Management </li>
    <li>Chapter 2: Strategic Human Resource Management </li>
    <li>Chapter 3: Contextualising HRM </li>
    <li>Chapter 4: HRM and the Labour Market </li>
    <li>Chapter 5: Talent Management </li>
    <li>Chapter 6: Managing Equality and Diversity </li>
    <li>Chapter 7: Learning and Development </li>
    <li>Chapter 8: Leadership and Management Development </li>
    <li>Chapter 9: Organisational Development </li>
    <li>Chapter 10: The Employment Relationship and Employee Rights at Work </li>
    <li>Chapter 11: Employment </li>
    <li>Chapter 12: Performance Management </li>
    <li>Chapter 13: Employee Reward </li>
    <li>Chapter 14: Employee Voice </li>
    <li>Chapter 15: Comparative HRM in the Context of Financialization, Financial Crisis and Brexit </li>
    <li>Chapter 16: Employment Relations in Emerging Economies: China and India </li>
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Julie Beardwell

Amanda Thompson

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Brief Contents

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Preface

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Part 1 Human Resource Management and its Organisational Context

Introduction to Part 1

Part 2 Resourcing the Organisation

Introduction to Part 2

Part 3 Developing the Human Resource

Introduction to Part 3

Part 4 The Employment Relationship

Part 5 Comparative Human Resource Management

Glossary of terms and abbreviations

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