Routledge Library Editions: Human Resource Management
About the Book Series
The 40 volumes in this set, originally published between 1918 and 1996, draw together research by leading academics in the area of human resource management and provides a rigorous examination of related key issues. The volumes examine interview techniques, staff appraisal, and workforce training and development. This set will be of particular interest to students of business studies and HRM.
A History of Personnel Administration 1890-1910
1st Edition
By John Kelly
November 20, 2018
This study, first published in 1986, examines and evaluates the personnel techniques and activities that were characteristic of one period in American industrial life. In later years these techniques and activities came to be known as personnel management or personnel administration. By these terms...
Autonomy and Control at the Workplace: Contexts for Job Redesign
1st Edition
Edited
By John E. Kelly, Chris W. Clegg
November 20, 2018
This book, first published in 1982, aims to re-examine the phenomenon of job redesign in a series of different but related contexts by including accounts, often using case study material, from people trained in a range of social science disciplines utilising different frames of reference. Thus job ...
Career Planning, Development, and Management: An Annotated Bibliography
1st Edition
By Jonathan P. West
November 20, 2018
Substantial literature has emerged on the subject of career planning, development, and management. Academic research by economists, educators, political scientists, psychologists, and sociologists has made the study of careers in organizations an important interdisciplinary focus in the social ...
Choosing and Keeping Computer Staff: Recruitment, Selection and Development of Computer Personnel
1st Edition
By John Kelly
November 20, 2018
This clear and detailed analysis, first published in 1976, of recruitment methods, staff development techniques, staff motivation, and organisational structures will be valuable to data processing managers and personnel officers alike. Its practical flavour and real understanding will also be ...
Cultural Adaptation in the Workplace
1st Edition
By Martha Tyler John, Donald G. Roberts
November 20, 2018
The purpose of this book, first published in 1996, is to explore the dimensions of the changing workforce, and examines the issues faced by non-native workers and their employers. This study aims to explore issues such as culture shock and cultural adaptation in the healthcare, fast food and hotel ...
Employee Relations Audits
1st Edition
By C. Jennings, W.E.J. McCarthy, R. Undy
November 20, 2018
This book, first published in 1990, is a practical manual which presents guidance on how to carry out and evaluate an employee relations audit. This title also provides audits for five key areas of employee relations, including communication and consultation, equality of opportunity and ...
Employee Turnover in the Public Sector
1st Edition
By Oscar Miller, Jr.
November 20, 2018
In this title, first published in 1996, the author uses the locus of control personality construct to show how workers who believe they can influence life events (internals) perceive and evaluate work conditions differently than workers who believe that life events are beyond their control (...
Gender and Successful Human Resource Decisions in Small Businesses
1st Edition
By Deborah Cain Good
November 20, 2018
This book, first published in 1998, is an attempt to better understand the human resource programs utilized by small firms and the basis for their choice. Much of the study is designed to provide a working framework from which to begin to understand the myriad of human resource decisions made in ...
Graduates in Industry
1st Edition
By Psi
November 20, 2018
There was much development of both education and industry in post-World War II Britain. There was, on the one hand, an extension of public education to the secondary school stage and the substantial financial help that was available, which meant that increasing numbers were going to university. On ...
Hiring Practices and Labor Productivity
1st Edition
By Marianne J. Koch
November 20, 2018
This title, first published in 1995, examines how certain human resource practices link to labor productivity, and sets out to explain why some firms choose particular practices while others do not. In order to clearly model the relationship between labor productivity and how the firm elects to ...
Human Resource Management in the Hotel and Catering Industry
1st Edition
By Michael J. Boella
November 20, 2018
This book, first published in 1987, gives valuable insights into the characteristics of employment in the hotel and catering industry and useful guidance on personal techniques. It deals with fundamental issues, such as personnel policy, as well as with practical techniques. Human Resource ...
Humanising the Workplace: New Proposals and Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard N. Ottaway
November 20, 2018
A great deal of attention is focused on the problem of improving the working environment. The research involved is not merely a question of improving industrial relations but rather it forms part of the entire inter-disciplinary search for ways of improving the quality of working life. This volume,...