Human resource management gaining a competitive advantage

• Other Authors: Noe, Raymond A. (Editor), Wright, Patrick M. (Editor), Hollenbeck, John R. (Editor), Gerhart, Barry A. (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Boston McGraw Hill Irwin 2006
• Edition: Fifth Edition
• Subjects: Personnel management > United States
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• Physical Description: xxxiv,749 pages illustrations 26cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 9780072987386; 0072987383; 9780073131948; 0073131946

As competitors strive to win the war for talent, effective human resource management is necessary to gain true competitive advantage in the marketplace. Three challenges companies face are sustainability, technology, and globalization. Human Resource Management 5th Edition brings these challenges to life by highlighting real-world examples pertaining to these issues and relating it to the concepts within the chapter. This best-selling McGraw-Hill/Irwin Human Resource Management title provides students with the technical background needed to be a knowledgeable consumer of human resource (HR) products and services, to manage HR effectively, or to be a successful HR professional. While clearly strategic in nature, the text also emphasizes how managers can more effectively acquire, develop, compensate, and manage the internal and external environment that relates to the management of human resources