[Ebook PDF] Managing Human Resources, 8th Edition

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[Ebook PDF] Managing Human Resources, 8th Edition

Author: Luis R. Gomez-Mejia (Author), David B. Balkin (Author), Robert L. Cardy (Author)

Managing Human Resources gives future managers a solid business understanding of human resource management skills. The approach used in this text makes human resources relevant to anyone who has to deal with HR issues in the workplace, even those who do not hold the title of manager. The Eighth Edition is updated to include new introductory vignettes, new case studies, and a focus on emerging trends in HR.

PREFACE

Managing Human Resources, Eighth Edition, prepares all future managers with a business understanding of the need for human resource management skills. Since the first edition of Managing Human Resources was published, the general management perspective has become much more prevalent among practicing managers. Recent environmental and organizational forces have contributed greatly to this trend. Organizations are becoming flatter. Globalized operations have become the norm for most organizations once they reach a certain size, and now one often finds that even firms with fewer than 50 employees may be engaged in cross-border activities. Organizations face great pressure to demonstrate social responsibility and to engage in sustainable practices. In addition to greater diversity at home, this trend requires that managers be prepared to work effectively with people with backgrounds very different from their own. Technology such as the Internet fosters communication among all levels of personnel, and managers are expected to be generalists, with a broad set of skills, including human resource management (HRM) skills.
Relatedly, social media is having a significant impact on HR practices, in particular recruitment and selection. At the same time, fewer firms have a highly centralized, powerful human resource (HR) department that acts as monitor, decision maker, and controller of HR practices throughout the organization. The emergence of small businesses as the main employer of the majority of the workforce in the United States and other countries has reinforced this trend. Thus, this eighth edition explicitly covers special challenges in the management of human resources dealing with ethics/social responsibility, technology/social media, globalization, customer satisfaction for the users of HR services, and coping with new emerging trends.
The unprecedented economic upheavals on a global basis in the recent past have made it even more clear that all managers should be able to deal effectively with HR issues such as preparing labor reduction plans; identifying key employees that the firm must keep despite declining profits; managing rising employee stress, anxiety, and depression; rewarding individuals for achieving important milestones; inducing employees to take prudent risks within their purview of responsibilities; cross-training employees so that they are capable of fulfilling different roles; enabling employees to become culturally savvy so that they can relate to diverse audiences both domestically and internationally; and treating employees in an ethical manner.
Most employees are now being asked to make difficult choices regarding benefit plans, and the new federal health insurance mandate has made these choices more complicated, at least in the next few years. Employees are increasingly asked to participate in HR decisions concerning recruitment and selection of new applicants, performance appraisals of peers and team members, enforcement of ethics policies, and the like. We believe that the “nonfunctional” HR approach used in this book makes HR relevant to anyone who has to deal with HR issues, including those who do not hold the title of manager. All materials have been thoroughly updated since the seventh edition (see Chapter-Specific Changes to the Eighth Edition), and we have incorporated new topical areas, in particular those concerning technology/social media and ethics/social responsibility.