The IEBM handbook of human resource management

Human resource management is about the relationship between an organization and its employees or human resources. The relationship is often central to the success or failure of a company. Human resource management incorporates and synthesises elements from personnel management, organisational behaviour and industrial and labour relations. In its practice and theory. HRM can be sen to involved two main strands. The first focuses on the links with strategy and the role of HRM in furthering the competitive advantage of the firm. The second builds on human relations and stresses the importance of the individual well-being to the enhancement of company performance. The two levels of theory and practice are inextricably linked in much of the writing on the subject. The IEBM Handbook of Human Resource Management offers a comprehensive and authoritative guide to human resource management thinking and practice. This one volume edition brings together a collection of original essays, integrating the respective elements of human resource management into a unified field of study. Comprehensive and global in scope and content, this encyclopedia has been written by renowned international experts, including Frank Heller, Yoke Sano, Randall S. Schuler, George Strauss and Rosalic Tung, amongst many others.