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 | | Human Resource Management (8th Edition) by Gary Dessler ISBN-10: 9780130141248 ISBN-10: 0-13-014124-0 ISBN-13: 9780130141248 ISBN-13: 978-0-13-014124-8 Hardcover 2000-08-15 Prentice Hall Find Lowest Price |
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Book Description Human Resource Management provides readers with a complete, comprehensive review of essential personnel management concepts and techniques in a highly readable and understandable form. Coverage emphasizes essential themes throughout the book, including the building of better, faster, more competitive organizations through HRM; practical applications that help all managers deal with their personnel-related responsibilities; and technology and HR. Specific topics include the strategic role of human resource management; equal opportunity and the law; job analysis; personnel planning and recruiting; employee testing and selection; interviewing candidates; training and developing employees; managing organizational renewal; appraising performance; managing careers and fair treatment; establishing pay plans; pay-for-performance and financial incentives; benefits and services; labor relations and collective bargaining; employee safety and health; managing human resources in an international business; human resources information systems and technology. For practicing Human Resource Managers as well as any business managers who deal with human resource/personnel issues. | ||
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Best In Breed This book's content and support is, unquestionably, the best available today. I've used it to support teaching HR Management to graduate students and have been pleased to see how much my students derive from it. HOWEVER... Very recently, some of the "free" support my students were able to use has been converted to "a la carte," pay as you go services. This was a huge disappointment to me and my students, who had to pay an outrageous $130 for a textbook. I used to feel justified supporting that price because of the auxiliary content with which it was bundled. But not any more. I would urge Dr. Dessler and his team to restore the "extras" that added so much value to the work. That carping done, he and his group have done a first-rate job on this one, and I'm eargerly looking forward to the new effort. | ||
Dessler Knows the Field Dessler's approach in Human Resource Management is thorough, comprehensive, contemporary, and very readable. The figures, tables, and other visuals are excellent for models and practical use. The cases and application exercises are relevant to the real world and greatly assist in the overall understanding of the main concepts of each chapter. Chapters on employee testing and selection, appraising performance, job analysis, and personnnel planning and recruiting, are particularly well presented. The complexities of establishing pay plans and financial incentives are explained in simple terms for the reader and include revelant examples. The text also comes with supplementary materials which greatly enhance it's use and application. This book can be used for lower as well as upper division courses at the University or College level. | ||
Substantive yet Simple I found the book indeed a must for "managers". It is essentials-full and highly concise, a product of many years of thought. If not for some minor spelling errors, the book would have been near to perfection. | ||
Disappointment int he Details I was delighted to learn that Dessler had a new HR management book available August 1999 for an MBA class I was teaching beginning in September 1999. Before selecting the book I reviewed an earlier edition and was pleased with the organization, topics, and simple style. I selected the newest edition without seeing it. Imagine my shock and embarrassment when I started reading it after assigning chapters to my students. I found a few typos in the beginning and laughingly told my students I would give them bonus points for any they found. I thought it would encourage them to read carefully. I had to discontinue the practice after about probably the first dozen were in the first couple chapters. One class we concentrated on writing a resume. The example of a "good" resume that Dessler provided was terrible. Not only was it confusing, it was from the 1980s. I am sorry that my students had to pay $. I am teaching the class again in February so will need to find another book. Mr. Dessler, I hope you encourage those in HR to be more careful in the details of their work than you were in your book. | ||
thorough and detailed i am a business final year undergraduate taking applied personnel policy, i find this book quite useful, even though it is not the prescribed text but i think it's worth the money. | ||