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As we move through the 1990s, the role of HRM is becoming ever more demanding. HRM issues are replacing capital resource issues as the guiding force for today's and tomorrow's organizations. HRM professionals must respond to changes in the economy, government and legal influences, new organizational forms, and changing employee expectations. They must also anticipate changes in global competition and training requirements. In the future, HRM professionals must work to become equal strategic partners in their organization, if they are to add value to the company. Here is an in-depth discussion of current and future challenges and issues for HRM professionals and scholars of human resource managers.
The authors present these challenges, with specific examples of individual HRM managers and their department's responses to these problems. The authors discuss steps that HRM professionals need to take to become more efficient and productive with limited human resources. Cultivating ethical behavior, trust and teamwork, as well as the use of information systems are also addressed. Special attention is given to the need of HRM professionals to increase their competency in their expanding role of providing strategic advice to senior executives and line managers.
List of contents
Preface
The Changing Role of Human Resource Management
The Role of Human Resource Management and Changing Employee Expectations
Human Resources Management and the Challenges of a Diverse Workforce: Including the Disabled in the Diversity Equation
Employee Compensation and HRM
Benefits and HRM
Human Resource Information Systems and HRM
HRM and Employee Training and Development
Downsizing and HRM
Ethics and the Role of HRM
HRM a Review and Preview
About the author
RONALD R. SIMS is the Floyd Dewey Gottwald Senior Professor of Business Administration, College of William & Mary, where he teaches organizational behavior, human resource management, leadership, and management of change. Author of more than 70 articles in the journals of his field, his most recent Quorum books include: Human Resource Management and the Americans with Disabilities Act (with John G. Veres, III) (1995), Changes and Challenges for the Human Resource Professional (with Serbrenia J. Sims) (1994), and Ethics and Organizational Decision Making: A Call for Renewal (1994).SERBRENIA J. SIMS is an independent researcher and author./e She and her husband Ronald have coauthored numerous works on multiculturalism and higher education, including Managing Higher Education in the 21st Century (Greenwood, 1991).
