Applications in Human Resource Management : Cases, Exercises, and Skill Builders
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Book Description
Applications in Human Resource Management is a single source of cases, exercises, incidents, and skill builders to supplement introductory human resource management courses. These materials offer a fresh approach based on dynamic, real-life organizational events confronting both human resource managers and line managers. The cases are based on "real" events that have taken place in organizations and the exercises and skill builders are intended to give learners the hands-on skills they will need in facing the challenges of today's workplace.
About the Author
Prof. Stella M. Nkomo is a professor of business leadership at the University of South Africa's Graduate School of Business Leadership. She is the former chair of the Department of Management at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte, North Carolina. She holds a doctorate in business administration from the University of Massachusetts. Prof. Nkomo is a former Scholar-in-Residence at the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College and Harvard University. Her nationally recognized work on race and gender in organizations, managing diversity, leading change, and human resource management appears in numerous journals, edited volumes, and magazines.
Prof. Nkomo has made numerous presentations to both academic and practitioner audiences. She is or has served on the editorial board of several management journals including the Organization, Academy of Management Review, Work and Occupations, Organization, and the Journal of Management Education. She is the author of three books including the Harvard Business School Press book, Our Separate Ways: Black and White Women and the Struggle for Professional Identity. She is a former member of the executive board of the Human Resource Management Division of the Academy of Management. Most recently, she completed a term as a member of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Management. Prof Nkomo is listed in the Who's Who in the Managerial Sciences. She is the recipient of many honors. During her tenure at the University of North Carolina, she received the Belk College of Business Research Excellence Award and the Bank of America Teaching Excellence Award. Prof. Nkomo also served as a member of the Board of Governors of the Center for Creative Leadership. Myron D. Fottler is Professor of Health Care Administration and Director of Programs in Health Administration at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida. He was previously Professor and Director of the Ph. D. Program in Administration-Health Services at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He received his M.B.A. from Boston University and his Ph. D. in Business from Columbia University. His research interests include all areas of health services administration as well as strategic human resources management, job design, and the impact of organizational restructuring. His most recent books include Strategic Leadership for Medical Groups, Strategic Management of Human Resources in Health Services Organizations, Essentials of Human Resources Management in Health Services Organizations, and Applications in Personnel / Human Resources Management. R. Bruce McAfee is a Professor of Business Administration at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA. He holds a Ph.D. degree from Wayne State University and a BBA and MBA from the University of Michigan. He has written over 10 books on topics that focus on Human Resources Management and Employee Motivation.
Applications in Human Resource Management : Cases, Exercises, and Skill Builders,Stella M. Nkomo,Myron D. Fottler,R. Bruce McAfee,South-Western College Pub,0324200811,Business & Economics,Business / Economics / Finance,Business/Economics,Case studies,Human Resources & Personnel Management,Personnel management,Problems, exercises, etc,Business & Economics / Human Resources & Personnel Management
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