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A handbook of personnel management practice / Michael Armstrong.

By: Armstrong, Michael, 1928-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Kogan Page, 1991Edition: 4th ed.Description: 976 p. : ill., forms ; 24 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0749402261 .Subject(s): Personnel managementDDC classification: 658.3
Contents:
Introduction: personnel and human resource management - concepts and development -- Part I: Personnel management -- An overview -- The context of personnel management -- The basis of personnel management -- Strategic human resource management -- Personnel policies -- Role of the personnel function -- Part II: Organizational behaviour -- The individual at work -- Motivation -- Commitment -- How organizations function -- Corporate culture -- Part III: Organization design and effectiveness -- Organization structure -- Organization design -- Job design -- Improving organizational effectiveness -- Part IV: Employee resourcing -- Human resource planning -- Job analysis and job descriptions -- Recruitment and selection -- Assessment centres -- Part V: Human resource development -- Performance management -- Training -- Management development -- Career management -- Part VI: Reward management -- The basis of reward management -- Establishing market rates -- Job evaluation -- Pay structures -- Performance-related pay -- Wage payment systems -- Employee benefits -- Salary administration -- Part VII: Employee relations -- Industrial relations -- Participation and joint consultation -- Communications -- Part VIII: Health, safety and welfare -- Health and safety -- Employee welfare -- Part IX: Employment and personnel administration -- The legal framework -- Employment practices and procedures -- Computerized personnel information systems -- Personnel records -- Part X: Conclusions -- Personnel management - key issues and trends.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
General Lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 658.3 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00029755
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A text which considers aspects of the personnel management function. Revised in line with the IPM's new syllabus, this volume aims to consider this function in relation to the needs of the business as a whole and includes sections on organizational behaviour and human resource development.

Previous ed.: 1984.

Includes indexes.

Introduction: personnel and human resource management - concepts and development -- Part I: Personnel management -- An overview -- The context of personnel management -- The basis of personnel management -- Strategic human resource management -- Personnel policies -- Role of the personnel function -- Part II: Organizational behaviour -- The individual at work -- Motivation -- Commitment -- How organizations function -- Corporate culture -- Part III: Organization design and effectiveness -- Organization structure -- Organization design -- Job design -- Improving organizational effectiveness -- Part IV: Employee resourcing -- Human resource planning -- Job analysis and job descriptions -- Recruitment and selection -- Assessment centres -- Part V: Human resource development -- Performance management -- Training -- Management development -- Career management -- Part VI: Reward management -- The basis of reward management -- Establishing market rates -- Job evaluation -- Pay structures -- Performance-related pay -- Wage payment systems -- Employee benefits -- Salary administration -- Part VII: Employee relations -- Industrial relations -- Participation and joint consultation -- Communications -- Part VIII: Health, safety and welfare -- Health and safety -- Employee welfare -- Part IX: Employment and personnel administration -- The legal framework -- Employment practices and procedures -- Computerized personnel information systems -- Personnel records -- Part X: Conclusions -- Personnel management - key issues and trends.

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