Product Description

a fully updated and revised tenth edition of this classic, best selling textbook. it remains the primary text for all students studying hrm – both undergraduate and postgraduate, as well as for students of the chartered institute of personnel and development (cipd) diploma. the handbook also continues to be an essential reference source for all managers concerned with personnel and hrm issues. this new edition of a handbook of human resource management practice contains a number of significant additions and revisions including substantial revisions to seventeen chapters and new chapters on: human capital management, the role of the front line manager; hr strategies; developing and implementing hr strategies and learning and development. the new edition also contains updated material based on recent developments in hrm policy and practice and a wide range of surveys and research projects conducted by professional associations and research bodies.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #154393 in Books
• Published on: 2006-04-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 982 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
Before such workplace innovations as e-mail and microwaves in the staff rooms, there were personnel departments who placed job adverts, dutifully sorted applications and passed round the odd memo on staff incentive schemes. Today we have HR divisions, as business finally realises that its best resource is the human element of its organisation. This book is a complete manual for the new breed of manager who sees staff as something more than numbers on the payroll. Everything you need to develop strategies for recruiting, training and motivating staff is here. From the job description to the golden handshake. Beginning with the basics of what makes an effective HR manager, through to recognising your staff's needs and meeting them, to overcoming barriers to organisational motivation and rewarding good employees. This book is filled with useful models on everything from how to formalise policies (such as health and safety), training, equal opportunities monitoring and keeping good HR records. At its basic level, it is an invaluable tool for anyone who has staff to deal with as it sets out simply and practically how to manage your company's most important asset--its people. This is the seventh edition of this manual and the author has included new chapters on the employment relationship, selection interviewing, performance management and organisational culture. --Kristen Bowditch

Personnel Today
"If any book is a contender for one of the standard references of the HR profession, this is it...Every HR practitioner would benefit from having this on their shelves."

Review

“if any book is a contender for one of the standard references of the hr profession, this is it…it covers just about everything that might be considered broadly relevant to practicing hr…every hr practitioner would benefit from having this on their shelves.”

personnel today

Customer Reviews

A Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice
Very easy to read. All theories are explained in simple terms that are easily understood.

Lots of bullet points instead of long paragraphs. Theories demonstrated by simple table and diagrams.

Index by subject and a second index by author, with lots of references to other writers.

EXCELLENT BOOK - used for MBA

Practical and Relevant to all Managers in an organisation
As a CIMA Student, I have found this book extremely useful for Paper 11 (OM) and no doubt will find it just a useful in later papers. As a supervisor I have found it practical and helpful in all areas of work directly and indirectly linked with staff management. A very good reference book for managers and students alike.

Enthusiastic review of all encompassing HRM handbook
Michael Armstrongs book is an invaluable tool for anyone new to management or to general HRM.
His topic coverage is so wide ranging as to leave nothing uncovered and whilst the number of topics does not lend itself to huge indepth coverage, it gives you more than enough information to be able to practically use. Should you wish to research further into any topic, there are numerous excellent references.
I have been using the book in conjuction with my P&D masters degree but find that I use it just as much in my day to day work.
The issues covered range from strategic HRM to specic team focus issues (motivation, teamworking etc) and in between cover the whole gamut of HRM from recruitment to employee realtions,from organisational learning to knowledge management.
Nothing is omitted.
If you are new to management, this book could become your bible. I highly recommend it.