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Human Resource Management: Managing Employees for Competitive Advantage, Fifth Edition offers a strategic framework to efficiently recognize and empower the right talent in a rapidly evolving business environment.
List of contents
Chapter 1 Managing Employees for Competitive Advantage
Chapter 2 Creating High-Performing HR Systems
Chapter 3 Regulatory Issues
Chapter 4 Job Design and Job Analysis
Chapter 5 Workforce Planning
Chapter 6 Recruitment
Chapter 7 Selection
Chapter 8 Learning and Development
Chapter 9 Performance Management
Chapter 10 Compensating Employees
Chapter 11 Incentives and Rewards
Chapter 12 Employee Benefits and Safety Programs
Chapter 13 Labor Unions and Employee Management
Chapter 14 International Human Resource Management
About the author
Dr. Mary Gowan, SHRM-SCP, SPHR, is a management scholar and consultant whose research, teaching, and consulting have focused on human resources and organizational behavior, career issues, and work transitions. In addition to teaching undergraduate, graduate and executive education courses, she is the author of a textbook on human resource management entitled
Human Resource Management: Managing Employees for Competitive Advantage. Her research has been published in journals including the
Journal of Applied Psychology,
Academy of Management Journal, and
Journal of Employment Counseling. She has provided consulting for numerous public, private, and non-profit organizations, including Lockheed-Martin, Marriott, Eureka, and the cities of Charlotte, NC, and El Paso, TX. Currently, she is the dean of the Mike Cottrell College of Business and professor of management at the University of North Georgia. She has also served as an associate dean at the George Washington University and dean at Elon and James Madison Universities. She has taught in Finland and in Korea and directed undergraduate and graduate programs or courses with study components in France, China, England, Singapore and Vietnam. Dr. Gowan holds a Ph.D. from the University of Georgia in Business Administration with a focus on human resource management, a master's degree in counselor education from Appalachian State University, and a bachelor's degree in psychology from Southwest Baptist University.
