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.
Interviewing for the Selection of Staff
1st Edition
By John Kelly, Clive Fletcher
November 20, 2018
This book, first published in 1956, is intended for those who interview people to assess their suitability for appointment or promotion to a particular position of employment. The authors discuss different methods of interviewing, how to create appropriate questions for the interview, and how to ...
Job Evaluation: A Critical Review
1st Edition
By Bryan Livy
November 20, 2018
This well-written and thoroughly illustrated description of the principles of job evaluation, first published in 1975, sets out to compare the relative usefulness and practical relevance of a wide range of methods within the overall context of remuneration policy and organisational effectiveness. ...
Managerial and Professional Staff Grading
1st Edition
By Joan Doulton, David Hay
November 20, 2018
This title, first published in 1962, explains a system of job evaluation suitable for managerial and professional posts, and calls for a radical rethinking of the essential requirements for senior jobs. With a focus on the British Broadcasting Company as well as other organisations, the authors ...
Managing Work Experience
1st Edition
By Peter Ashworth, Judy Saxton
November 20, 2018
This book, first published in 1992, sets out the belief that the placement element of courses should be designed from the start as a genuine educational experience. The learner most not merely live through experiences which are supposed to lead to personal and professional development, but must ...
Managing the Training Function: Using Instructional Technology and Systems Concepts
1st Edition
By Christopher Gane
November 20, 2018
The effective development of human resources within the organisation is one of the most powerful contributions to the long-term growth and survival of the enterprise. This systematic and practical approach to training principles and practice, first published in 1972, provides a unifying framework ...
Measurement of Human Resources
1st Edition
Edited
By W. T. Singleton, P. Spurgeon
November 20, 2018
The issue of physical resources is one of considerable interest in the field of human resource management, but the solution to such difficulties must depend upon the skills and enterprise of those in positions of management. The purpose of this book, first published in 1975, is to focus upon these ...
Motivation at Work
1st Edition
By Hywel Murrell
November 20, 2018
The last century has seen a wide variety of approaches to motivation, from scientific management through financial incentives, productivity bargaining to job enrichment. Psychologists and other social scientists have attempted to help industry through the development of theories on motivation and ...
Performance Measurement and Theory
1st Edition
Edited
By Frank Landy, Sheldon Zedeck, Jeanette Cleveland
November 20, 2018
In this volume, first published in 1983, the editors aim to achieve an understanding of performance from a variety of theoretical perspectives. The papers in this volume will not only spur further research, but will also provide an opportunity for some careful considerations of how performance is ...
Personnel Planning and Occupational Choice
1st Edition
By Stuart R. Timperley
November 20, 2018
This book, first published in 1974, explores the processes by which organisations (and larger entities) attempt to influence their populations (and prospective future populations). The author examines these processes in regards to systematic analysis with a focus on one key area of behaviour, ...
Planning Continuing Professional Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Frankie Todd
November 20, 2018
Continuing professional development (CPD) aims to maintain or improve the quality of professional performance. So far, it tends to have been designed for specific professional groups such as teachers, doctors, architects or engineers. Approaches, as a result, have often been local, separatist or ...
Policy and Practice in European Human Resource Management: The Price Waterhouse Cranfield Survey
1st Edition
Edited
By Chris Brewster, Ariane Hegewisch
November 20, 2018
This volume, first published in 1994, lays out and considers the evidence of trends in HRM in a variety of areas: overall strategy, the role and education of HR professionals, recruitment, training and development, pay, industrial relations, communication, flexibility, equal opportunities and EC ...
Professional Burnout: Recent Developments in Theory and Research
1st Edition
Edited
By W ilmar B. Schaufeli, Christina Maslach, Tadeusz Marek
November 20, 2018
A rapidly growing number of people experience psychological strain at their workplace. In almost all industrialized countries, absenteeism and turnover rates increase, and an increasing amount of workers receive disablement benefits because of psychological problems. This book, first published in ...