Publisher's Synopsis
Human Resource Management includes conducting job analyses, planning personnel needs, recruiting the right people for the job, orienting and training, managing wages and salaries, providing benefits and incentives, evaluating performance, resolving disputes, and communicating with all employees at all levels. Examples of core qualities of HR management are extensive knowledge of the industry, leadership, and effective negotiation skills. Due to rapid changes in the business environment, including globalization and technological innovations, the traditional sources of competitive advantage are not sufficient for success in today's situation. The rising competition requires to develop the internal potential, hereby the great attention is paid to business systems emphasizing that people enable these systems to operate. Therefore, human resources and their management have recently been viewed vital in the attainment of sustainable competitive advantage. This book, Human Resource Management a Strategic Approach to Employee Management, covers all aspects of human resources management and its impact on both individuals and organizations the text builds on a foundation of research and theory taking a practical approach focusing on critical issues and successful practices. First chapter focuses on human resource management and performance. Second chapter discusses general issues on DSS technologies and an idea to apply DSS technologies into Human Resources Management (HRM) field. Third chapter tries to analyze the specific problems existed in human resource management and to put forward a series of solutions. Chapter four reveals the role of human resource information system in the process of manpower activities. Fifth chapter presents the scientifically solid theory of Human Capital Production Function, which explains tangible and intangible human capital's worth to business scorecards in terms of profit and loss account metrics. This chapter illustrates how human capital production function explains human resource management's essential role in supporting strategic aims in either achieving cost advantage or differentiation advantage. The aim of sixth chapter is double. Theoretically, it provides a conceptual framework and modelling of the relationship between human resource management (HRM) systems and non-based-knowledge firms. Empirically, it is to find which types of HRM systems can be adopted by Catalan firms and to establish their determinants. Seventh chapter aims to provide a theoretical analysis of the HRIS implementation with analysis of benefits, limitations and barriers. Eighth chapter aims at examining the perceived importance of human resource information system (HRIS) in business. The main aim of ninth chapter is to explore the context of globalization on human resource development in developing countries the case of African countries. Tenth chapter aims to examine the influence of human resource management (HRM) practices on bank efficiency using Malmquist index of total factor productivity. Eleventh chapter focuses on HR development in local government. Last chapter analyzes the impact of the assessment policies adopted by the organizations on the employees' performance.
