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Strategic Human Resource Management: A General Managerial Approach, 2/E
Charles R. Greer, Texas Christian University

ISBN-10: 0130279501
ISBN-13: 9780130279507

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2001
Format: Paper; 348 pp
Published: 11/27/2000

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For MBA programs and graduate-level courses in Human Resource Management, Administration and Industrial/Organizational Psychology.

This text deals with the interaction between strategy and human resources as approached from a general managerial perspective. It provides students with a comprehensive overview of human resource issues applied to the most current technological advances and up-to-date investments in human resource practices.

  • NEW - Updated investment opportunities in human resource practices.
  • NEW - Updated technology influences.

    • Provides students with the most current technological advances as they affect HR. Ex.___

  • NEW - Virtual teams, outsourcing, telecommuting.
  • NEW - Revised, updated, and new case studies.

    • Provides students with relevant, timely exposure to real-world situations. Ex.___

  • Investment orientation.

    • Enables students to evaluate the return on human resources. Ex.___

  • Human resource practices examples.

    • Familiarizes students with aspects of strategic human resource management. Ex.___

  • General and legal environmental scanning.

    • Provides students with the background needed to examine the potential opportunities and threats to which strategies must be directed. Ex.___

  • Strategy formulation.

    • Provides students with an integrated strategic human resource management approach. Ex.___

  • Human resource planning.

    • Enables students to match resources with the requirements needed for implementing strategies. Ex.___

  • Strategy implementation.

    • Introduces students to workforce utilization and employment practices, as well as reward and development systems. Ex.___

  • Evaluation.

    • Provides students with general approaches to evaluation and specific applications to various human resource practices and activities. Ex.___

  • Updated investment opportunities in human resource practices.
  • Updated technology influences.

    • Provides students with the most current technological advances as they affect HR. Ex.___

  • Virtual teams, outsourcing, telecommuting.
  • Revised, updated, and new case studies.

    • Provides students with relevant, timely exposure to real-world situations. Ex.___



 1. An Investment Perspective of Human Resources.


 2. The Human Resource Environment.


 3. The Human Resource Legal Environment.


 4. Strategy Formulation.


 5. Human Resource Planning.


 6. Strategy Implementation: Workforce Utilization and Employment Practices.


 7. Strategy Implementation: Reward and Development Systems.


 8. The Performance Impact of Human Resource Practices.


 9. Human Resource Evaluation.


Index.

Praised by adopters for its relevancy to managers, the new Second Edition deals with the interaction between strategy and human resources, as approached from a general managerial perspective. This approach is demonstrated in the book's extensive examples of applications of strategic human resource management in specific companies.

The Second Edition Features:

  • An investment orientation toward human resources.
  • A conceptual framework, comprised of a mission statement and nine components corresponding to individual chapters that draw from the principles of human capital theory, strategic management, strategic planning, environmental analysis, human resource planning, strategy implementation, and principles of evaluation.
  • Discussions of strategy formulation, human resource planning, strategy implementation, the performance impact of human resource practices, and human resource evaluation.
  • Numerous examples of human resource practices are provided throughout the book, which often involve companies that are exemplary in some aspect of strategic human resource management.

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