Human Resource Management in Action – serie

The second edition of this important book brings practising managers and academics up-to-date on the social and economic impact and presents new survey evidence and summarizes the debate which has emerged on the subject of Japanization since the mid 1980s.

The second, fully revised edition of this best-selling handbook features wide ranging, updated overviews of developments worldwide by leading international specialists of developments worldwide from the UK, USA, Europe and Australia as well as ccontributions on all aspects of HRM practice including, for the first time in this edition, chapters on HRM in public sector organizations, its role in the development of business ethics, and HRM in Information technology.The cases retain updated studies of Ford, Sainsbury and the controversial Rosyth Royal Dockyard as well as new cases of teamworking in an electronics multinational and two studies from Ghana and Korea on the impact of national culture on management.

Management Development is a comprehensive, analytic and up-to-date text covering all the key elements of this critically important human resource activity. For HRM students at all levels, including those on IPD programmes, and for human resource managers it provides a framework for understanding the core concepts that both reviews best current practice, and questions it.The book looks at what is meant by management development from the perspective of the organization and the individual manager. It gives an authoritative overview of: Strategic integration and career development.Analysis of managerial work roles and identification of development needs.Managerial learning.The differing needs of diverse managerial groups from women managers, technical specialists, international managers and board members to small business managers.Written by two leading academics with wide consulting experience this new text gives a definitive and critical introduction to the field. There can be no doubt that management development is one of the issues critical to corporate competitiveness and students in both human resource and general management studies will find this an indispensable guide to the key issues.Management Development is an essential text for master's level human resource management programs and for high level practitioners.