Managing People in Organizations

This new and engaging textbook offers a unique line manager perspective that presents students with HRM topics and issues that they will be confronted with once they enter the world of work in a managerial role. It is a concise text that focuses on providing students with all they need to know to equip them with a comprehensive understanding of the role the (non-HR) manager plays in the day-to-day running of an organization. The author’s deep understanding and wide-ranging knowledge of the subject matter means that the text is firmly founded on the latest research, while the case studies, topical and international examples, and experiential exercises that form a fundamental part of the book ensure that theory is always clearly applied to real-world practice.

Key features include:

·         Covers a diverse range of both established topics and key contemporary issues, from how to conduct performance appraisals to recruitment and selection, and from strategic HRM to the role of HRM in sustainability and corporate social responsibility

·         Succinct and ideally structured for one-semester courses and busy MBA students

·         Extensive workbook sections at the end of each chapter offering a range of exercises and resources, including five seminar discussion questions for use in the classroom, links to relevant online lectures and documentaries on the topic, and a 5-by-5 exercise featuring five case studies each accompanied by five questions designed to deepen students’ HR knowledge and develop their transferable skills

·         Learning objectives at the start of each chapter and a list of further readings at the end

·         A companion website featuring a comprehensive glossary of key terms highlighted in the book, in addition to other learning and teaching materials

Managing People in Organizations is an essential companion for MBA and postgraduate students who are studying modules on Human Resource Management or Managing People but who are non-HRM specialists and do not require the exhaustive detail found in other HRM texts. It is also suited for use alongside upper-level undergraduate modules on these topics on mainstream business degrees.

Thomas Klikauer holds two MAs (Boston & Bremen) and a PhD in Industrial and Business Studies (Warwick Business School). He is a Senior Lecturer at the Sydney Graduate School of Management (SGSM) at Western Sydney University, Australia. Dr. Klikauer has been teaching MBAs for well over a decade and has over 300 publications, including seven books published by Palgrave Scholarly and thirty journal articles on management, business ethics, industrial relations, and Human Resource Management.

List of contents

1. Introducing Management People in Organizations: What is this Book About and How to Use it
2. Getting the Right People: Recruitment and Selection
3. Managing Workplace Relations: The Three Actors at Work
4.Peopleand Skills: Learning and Human Resource Development
5. Designing Work: Creating Productive Work Systems
6. Promoting Health: Occupational Health and Safety
7. Creating Success: Performance Management
8. Rewarding Success: Managing Compensation and Rewards
9. Strategies to Manage People: Strategic HRM
10. Managing People Ethically: Ethics at Work and in Management.

About the author

Thomas Klikauer holds two MAs (Boston & Bremen) and a PhD in Industrial and Business Studies (Warwick Business School). He is a Senior Lecturer at the Sydney Graduate School of Management (SGSM) at Western Sydney University, Australia. Dr. Klikauer has been teaching MBAs for well over a decade and has over 300 publications, including seven books published by Palgrave Scholarly and thirty journal articles on management, business ethics, industrial relations, and Human Resource Management.

Summary

This new and engaging core textbook offers a unique line manager perspective that presents students with HRM topics and issues that they will be confronted with once they enter the world of work in a managerial role. It is a concise text that focuses on providing students with all they need to know to equip them with a comprehensive understanding of the role the (non-HR) manager plays in the day-to-day running of an organization. The author’s deep understanding and wide-ranging knowledge of the subject matter means that the text is firmly founded on the latest research, while the case studies, topical and international examples, and experiential exercises that form a fundamental part of the book ensure that theory is always clearly applied to real-world practice.

This text is an essential companion for MBA and postgraduate students who are studying modules on Human Resource Management or Managing People but who are non-HRM specialists and do not require the exhaustive detail found in other HRM texts. It is also suited for use alongside upper-level undergraduate modules on these topics on mainstream business degrees.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Klikauer, Thomas (Western Sydney University Klikauer
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9781352004069
• ISBN: 978-1-352-00406-9
• No. of pages: 278
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; B, Planning, Human Resource Management, Organization, Business and Management, Personnel & human resources management, Personnel Management, Management science