Human resource management in Europe : text and cases
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Human resource management in Europe : text and cases
Chapman & Hall, 1992
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This book sets out to provide students with both a theoretical and a practical guide to human resource management right across the European continent. The book tackles the HRM challenges facing businesses in the new Europe and shows how human resource managers can understand and respond effectively to the changing employment contexts in which they will be making decisions. The book makes extensive use of real-life case studies and role play materials. The authors are drawn from around Europe and are able to provide informed experience of the similarities and differences between human resource management problems in varying cultural contexts. The cases reflect the professional personnel experience of the authors, offering students an insight into the practice as well as the theory of human resource management in everyday situations. The book's six sections cover the full spectrum of HRM issues: the human resource management function, managing people, employee resourcing, human resourcing, human resource development, reward management and industrial relations and employee involvement.
Each section includes an introduction setting out the key issues in current theory and practice, and then allows the student to explore the subject through role plays, practical cases and exercises. "Human Resource Management in Europe" is aimed at MBA students taking HRM, industrial relations and organizational behaviour courses, and for specialist undergraduate courses in personnel management, industrial relations, management studies and European management studies. The wide European scope of the book makes it suitable for courses throughout Europe, and also in the US where there is increasing interest in the European scene.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 The human resources management function: European personnel management - the approach of the EAPM
- a job description for a European personnel manager, Heribert Schmidt-Dorrenbach
- human resources management or personnel management?.. personnel policies in two district councils in England, Linda Keen. Part 2 Managing people - motivation, control work systems: an ethical dilemma, John Sheldrake
- how to deal with antinormative behaviour by a high-status person - the case of a university president making obscene phonecalls, Sandra Schruijer and Jim Tedeschi
- the significance of control, John Sheldrake
- omnipaint N.V. job enrichment in the quality control laboratory, Tharsi Taillieu
- work redesign at the production department of a camera plant, Sandra Schruijer
- work organization - management strategy and redesign in a Bulgarian metals factory, John Thirkell and Dimitrina Dimitrova. Part 3 Employee resourcing: the growth of part-time work in Europe
- road safety Ltd - the recruitment of non-traditional sources of labour supply, women returners in a small company, Sandra Schruijer
- different European perspectives on selection techniques - the case of graphology, Gloria Moss
- developing the best managers - an assessment centre for general managers in the NHS, David Perkins and Tony Snape. Part 4 Human resource development: training accountants in Europe
- determining training needs in a leisure company, Linda Keen
- career planning in a multi-national firm - determining and training for language needs, Gloria Moss
- determining the skill needs of managers - the case of Czechoslovakia, Richard Scase. Part 5 Reward Management: performance related pay in British Rail, Andrew Pendleton
- establishing a new grade system - the case of an Irish bank, Bill Roche
- profit sharing - different perspectives in Europe. Part 6 Industrial relations and employee involvement: new forms of collective bargaining in France, Michel Feron
- audiovisual centrum - a case of status and conflict in a Dutch University setting, Tharsi Taillieu
- the elimination of craft demarcations in the Irish National Airline, Bill Roche and Tom Murphy
- the introduction of "progress teams" at the ACENOR factory in Spain, Jose Maria Rodriquez.
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