.Strengthen your student's understanding of today's important human resource issues and equip them with the skills to overcome current practical HRM challenges when you supplement your course with the latest edition of Nkomo/Fottler/McAfee's unique Human Resource Management Application: Cases, Exercises, Incidents and Skill Builders, 7E. This one-of-a-kind, single source brings contemporary human resource management cases, focused exercises, timely incidents and proven skill builders together. You save significant preparation time, while your students gain hands-on experience critical.
A new Correlation Chart in the revised Instructor's Manual corresponds with other leading Cengage Learning introductory HR texts makes this edition's valuable cases and applications easy to integrate into your introductory HR course. An emphasis on problem solving and decision making throughout the exercises make HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONS, 7E, ideal for any level of study.
New and updated cases and applications drawn from actual current events highlight a variety of organizations and industries, including today's growing service sector. The book reinforces topics most critical to today's HR manager as it helps you strengthen your students' hands-on experience to better meet the challenges of HRM today.
Features:
Today's Most Through Selection of HRM Applications Prepares Students for Real HR Challanges. This unique, all-in-one-source selection of exceptional, timely cases, exercises, incidents and skill builders provides an accurate depiction of the challenges facing employees and managers in today''s work environment.
Real Applications Emphasize the Practicality of HR Principles in Action. This edition''s exercises, skill builders and examples are drawn from timely actual business situations and events. Students see, first-hand, how human resource managers, line managers and others responsible for personnel use HR policies and programs. These real life applications further provide future managers with hands-on understanding of the situations and issues shaping human resource management.
Updated Topic Correlation Table at the Front of the Text Saves You Valuable Preparation Time. You can quickly locate numerous cases, exercises, incidents or skill builders related to a specific HR topic with the convenient Correlation Table within this edition.
Variety of Cases and Application Show How HR Principles Impact Diverse Organizations. This edition''s cases, exercises, incidents, skill builders and team projects expose students to a myriad of organizational settings and typical business activities to provide deeper insights into today's HR practices and their consequences, no matter what the industry.
Efficient Activities are Ideal for Typical Classroom Settings. Thorough, yet concise activities within this edition are all designed for students to complete within the typical 50-minute classroom period. Students are able to work at a comfortable pace and submit their best work, without feeling rushed.
Concise Coverage of Introductory HRM Topics Makes Book a Compressive Resource. This 7th Edition reinforces the principles in most introductory HRM texts with an overview of basic topics that make it a valuable, ongoing resource for undergraduate or graduate courses that emphasize hands-on activities and practice.
Diversity of Organizations Highlighted Provides Wealth of Sample Applications. This edition exposes your students to a wide breadth of examples from a diversity of organizations, including those in today's growing service sector. Students gain experience in a variety of typical situations.
New Cases and Applications Reflect Industry Changes and Trends most Important for Todays's HR Students. A wealth of new cases, exercises, incidents and skill builders throughout this edition as well as thoroughly updated cases and applications reflect today's most current HRM trends. Students study the most recent industry changes, changes in employment laws and areas of specific interest, such as environmentally friendly HR policies, security breaches, work and family issues, the use of social networking in the selection process, executive compensation and same-sex benefits.
Fully Updated Instructor's Manual Helps You Effectively Integrate the Latest Content Into Your Classrooms. New explanations within this edition''s Instructor''s Manual distinguish the differences among each of the book edition''s new and revised applications. This useful Manual details how to most effectively implement more cases, exercises, incidents and skill builders into your HR course.
New Time-Saving Correlation Guide Connects Content to Popular HR Texts. To save you time, this edition's Instructor's Manual provides a new Correlation Guide that allows you to see at a glance where to incorporate items from Nkomo/Fottler/ McAfees Human Resource Management Application's, 7E, into your course when you are using a Cengage Learning Human Resource Management text.
About the Author:
Stella M. Nkomo serves as professor in the Department of Human Resource Management at the University of Pretoria. She is the former chair of the Department of Management at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte, North Carolina. She holds a Ph.D. in business administration from the University of Massachusetts. Dr. Nkomo is a former Scholar-in-Residence at the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College and Harvard University. Dr. Nkomos nationally recognized work on race and gender in organizations, managing diversity, leading change and human resource management appears in numerous journals, edited volumes and magazines. She has served on the editorial board of several management journals, including the Academy of Management Review; Organization; British Journal of Management; the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal; Journal of Managerial Psychology; Management Communication Quarterly; Work and Occupations and the Journal of Management Education. She has written three successful books and is a former member of the executive board of the Human Resource Management Division of the Academy of Management. Most recently, she served as a member of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Management. Dr. Nkomo has received numerous honors, including the Gender and Diversity in Organization Division Sage Scholarly Contributions Award in 2009. She received the Belk College of Business Research Excellence Award and the Bank of America Teaching Excellence Award during her tenure at the University of North Carolina. Dr. Nkomo also served on the Board of Governors of the Center for Creative Leadership. At the University of South Africa she received three awards for significant contributions to research.
R. Bruce McAfee is an Eminent Professor of Management at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. He has a M.B.A. from the University of Michigan, a M.A. from the University of Detroit and a Ph.D. from Wayne State University. He has written 10 popular HR books, including Organization Behaviour, Effectively Managing Troublesome Employees, Productivity Strategies and Applications in Human Resource Management. He has also written more than 50 articles and conducted more than 50 in-house training sessions for various corporations.
