Human Resource Management: Contemporary Issues, Challenges and Opportunities

  • 12h 33m
  • Ronald R. Simms (ed)
  • Information Age Publishing
  • 2007

The contributors in this book identify and clearly discuss contemporary and critical issues, challenges and opportunities in HRM. The book attempts to achieve the delicate balance between basic HRM functions, and the new world of HRM. Moreover, in a dynamic field like HRM, a complete look at contemporary HRM issues, challenges, and opportunities is a must for today's and tomorrow's students and future manages and leaders. After all, it is important for any book to undertake a current state of the field while also bridging the gap of traditional HRM activities (i.e., issues, challenges and opportunities) and the possible future state of the HRM field. An organizing principle for this book is the need to for an integrated HRM system, comprised of multiple activities, designed to influence organizational and employee behaviors. The books contributors include some basic theories and models that simultaneously consider how HRM activities like recruitment, selection, reward practices, and development activities among others are being impacted by contemporary issues, challenges and opportunities for the field of HRM, particularly HRM functions and professional as they are increasingly expected to play a role in enabling organizational managers and other employees to achieve desired organizational results. Thus, the essence of the book is that the collective chapters reflect both a functional orientation built on theory and models but also provide insights into how to translate theory into practice via the establishment of the increasingly critical role HRM procedures, practices, and processes play in accomplishing the goals and objectives in contemporary organizations.

About the Editor

Ronald R. Sims, is the Floyd Dewey Gottwalld Senior Professor in the Mason School of Business at the College of William and Mary where he teaches courses in organization behavior, human resource management (HRM), leadership and organization change, and business ethics. He received his PhD in organizational behavior from Case Western Reserve University in 1981. He presently serves as the teaching business ethics section editor for the Journal of Business Ethics, and as a reviewer for the Review of Business. His research focuses on a variety of topics to include leadership and change management, HRM, business ethics, employee training, management and leadership development, learning styles, and experiential learning. He is the author or coauthor of 25 books and more than 80 articles that have appeared in a wide variety of scholarly and practitioner journals. His most recent books are: Human Resource Development: Today and Tomorrow (2006); Learning Styles and Learning: A Key to Meeting the Accountability Demands in Education (2006); Leadership: Succeeding in the Private, Public, and Not-for-profit Sector (2005); School System Change: Charting a Course for Renewal (2004); Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility: Why Giants Fall (2003); Changing the Way We Manage Change (2002); Managing Organizational Behavior (2002); Organizational Success through Effective Human Resources Management (2002); Teaching Business Ethics for Effective Learning (2002); and The Challenge of Frontline Management: Flattened Organizations in the New Economy (2001).

In this Book

  • Effective Human Resources Management—Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
  • Public Sector HRM—Minor Similarities and Major Differences
  • The Legal Status of Affirmative Action in Employment
  • Toward Successful International Human Resources Management
  • Recruiting Strong Applicants—Process, Prospects, Challenges
  • A New Look At old Tools—Human Resources Management in a New Era of Litigation
  • Strategic Staffing—Talent Acquisition in the 21st Century
  • Organizational Realities and the Role of HRM in Maximizing Performance—A View from I/O Psychology
  • Fostering an Ethical Culture for Business—The Role of HR Managers
  • Socializing Employees—Helping Individuals Develop Appropriate Expectations for Both Their Work and the Organization
  • Retaining Intellectual Capital—A Managers Perspective
  • Human Resource Development—Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities
  • Leadership Development and Strategic HR at a Crossroads
  • Human Resource Management and Career Management and Development
  • Compensation—Choosing and Using the Best System for Your Organization
  • Traditional Pay in Public Organizations—Should We Try Something Else or Try Doing It Right?
  • Employee Benefits—Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities
  • Organizational Development and Change
  • Rationale for an HRM-Ethic and Its Inclusion as a Theoretical Foundation
  • A Look at Contemporary Human Resource Management Information
  • Chronic Health Issues—What HR Managers Should Know and Do
  • The Changing Mission of HRM in Health Care Organizations—New Opportunities and Challenges
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