Human Resource Practice

9. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-3986-2177-0
Verlag: Kogan Page

Buch, Englisch, 432 Seiten, Format (B × H): 189 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 696 g

Accessible and jargon-free, Human Resource Practice is an ideal introductory textbook for those taking the CIPD Foundation Certificate in People Practice, undergraduate HR students and early-career people professionals in their first HR role. Fully updated throughout, this book covers everything from the organizational context and legal background through to the core areas of recruitment and selection, performance management, reward and learning and development. There is also coverage of job analysis and design, employee relations and change in organisations. This edition now has new content on the principles of analytics, more discussion of company culture and updated coverage of HR technologies. The final chapter has been fully updated to cover new core behaviours of being a people professional including ethical practice and fostering a sense of inclusion and wellbeing in the workforce. Reflective activities, case studies and explore further boxes throughout the book encourage students to think critically about the content and understand how it applies in practice in the workplace. Online resources include an instructor's manual and lecture slides.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bessant, Helen

Dive, Brian

Whiting, Fiona

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Personalwesen, Human Resource Management

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• • Chapter - 01: Introduction and overview;
  • Chapter - 02: The organisational context;
  • Chapter - 03: The legal background to employment;
  • Chapter - 04: Job analysis and design;
  • Chapter - 05: Recruitment and selection;
  • Chapter - 06: Performance management;
  • Chapter - 07: Reward;
  • Chapter - 08: ?Employee relations;
  • Chapter - 09: Learning and development;
  • Chapter - 10: Information and communication technology in HR;
  • Chapter - 11: Change in organisations;
  • Chapter - 12: Personal effectiveness

Über Autor(innen)

Whiting, Fiona
Fiona Whiting MSc, LLb, Chartered FCIPD is a freelance HR consultant with many years' experience working across the public, voluntary and private sectors. She has held a number of Board level HR Director posts within the NHS and is co-founder and Director of consultancy ThePeopleEffect.

Fiona Whiting is a freelance HR and organisational development consultant with over 20 years' experience as an HR practitioner. She has held a number of executive board-level positions and has worked predominantly with the NHS, local authorities and academic institutions as well as in a variety of private sector organisations. Based in Brighton, UK, she is also the co-founder and director of The People Effect List. Helen Bessant is the Lead Assessor for CIPD Foundation and Associate level qualifications. Based in Worcester, UK, she is the Curriculum and Resource Quality Leader for Management and Professional Studies at the Heart of Worcestershire College and is an online tutor at ICS Learn.