Students taking a personnel or human resources management course
often do not enter the course bursting with curiosity or unbridled
enthusiasm. After all, what kind of excitement can there be in
studying how to process payroll, check employment references, or
learn about some arcane government regulation? It is unfortunate
and ultimately self-defeating if such a mindset about human
resources persists, because in today's business world,
organizational success and competitive advantage come from the
"people" side of the business--a workforce that is highly competent
and committed to the success of the organization. The key for
students in this field is to learn how to use human resources
management (HRM) to achieve this advantage.
It is important for students to learn to identify, develop, and
manipulate policies and programs to produce desired outcomes. A
wide range of critical HRM experiences are presented in this book
as either exercises, applications, or experiments--all designed to
help students see the choices available and experience their
implications in managing the organization. They also offer examples
of how HRM function must operate within a framework of rules and
regulations.
More specifically, this book contains over 30 different situations
that illustrate both classic and contemporary human resources
problems. It covers the entire spectrum of HRM from establishing
policies and goals, through job analysis and evaluation, personnel
planning, selection and appraisal, to compensation and benefits,
training, organizational improvement, and safety and labor
relations. Most of the situations described are drawn from the
real-life experiences of managing human resources, including
several cases from today's headlines.
The case exercises, applications, and experiments are designed to
be used as part of regular classroom instruction and can be used
with any textbook. The exercises incorporate a number of different
learning processes, including case discussions, self-assessments,
interviews of others, data analysis, team teaching, testing,
experimental observation, program creation and design,
role-playing, exercise simulations, training, and participation in
experiments. The teacher can use these experiential learning
activities to supplement regular classroom instruction; the
activities clarify, crystallize, and expand the understanding
gained from the lectures.
Of special interest:
* All of the exercises can be conducted during class times or can
be used as homework assignments.
* The instructor's manual is organized for easy use with a summary
of each case, guidelines for administering each case, plus
supplemental or background information.
* An exercise planning table links each exercise with the chapters
found in a number of the most commonly used HRM textbooks.
* Most of the cases are based on actual events, drawn from the
author's professional or consulting experience or from events first
reported in the national media. Each case is intended to replicate
and carry a high degree of fidelity to "real world" conditions as
fully as possible.
* The experiments in the book are intended to serve as both
discovery processes and illustrations of the procedures and rules
invoked in developing human resources systems. In many of these
experiments, students draw on their own background and perspectives
to test out various points of view. The experiments illustrate some
of the underlying research that often serves as the basis for HRM
policies and procedures.
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