This book provides students with an updated perspective on HRM, drawing on new paradigms while still focusing on fundamental HR processes. It offers theoretical frameworks as well as experiential approaches to explain the core concepts and frameworks in HRM. The book covers new and upcoming topics, including the shift in industrial relations and the rise of new employment relations. It presents real-world HR practices in global organizations to help readers understand various strategic choices and initiatives. This second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated with treatise with complete chapters on new and upcoming topics.
- System orientation: Enables the readers to view HRM practices as part of the business system and the correlation with business outcomes
- Experiential perspective: Extensive collection of cases and exhibits from private and public work environment to enable exploratory and investigative learning
- Robust pedagogy: Over 50 case studies with discussion points, and over 25 exhibits on new HR initiatives and industrywide developments, and analytical exercises for classroom discussion
- Comprehensive Coverage: New and emerging topics, with complete chapters on Career Management, Well-being at Workplace, and Diversity and Inclusion, making it a more complete textbook
- Cengage Digital App includes: Additional cases, MCQs, solutions manual, videos on difficult / select topics, flashcards, and further readings.
CLUSTER 1: OLD HR–NEW HR
1. Human Resource Management—An Introduction
2. Human Resource Business Partnership
CLUSTER 2: PLAN AND ACQUIRE
3. Human Resource Planning
4. Recruitment and Selection
CLUSTER 3: DEVELOP AND GROW
5. Training and Development
6. Competency Management
7. Career Management
CLUSTER 4: ENGAGE AND PERFORM
8. Employee Engagement
9. Performance Management
CLUSTER 5: REWARD AND COMPENSATE
10. Compensation and Benefits
11. Compensation for Special Groups
CLUSTER 6: DECENT WORKPLACE—COMPLIANCE AND DIALOG
12. Industrial Relations
13. Workplace Laws and Regulations
CLUSTER 7: TRANSFORMATION OF WORK AND WORK RELATIONSHIPS
14. Human Resource Information and Analytics
15. Employment Relations
CLUSTER 8: HUMAN RESOURCE BLUE OCEAN
16. Human Resource Management in Small and Medium Enterprises
17. Human Resource Management in the Service Sector
CLUSTER 9: INNOVATE AND TRANSFORM
18. Organization Transformation and the Human Resource Leadership
19. Human Resource Management Innovations
CLUSTER 10: REIMAGINING HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
20. Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion
21. Workplace Wellness
Amitabha Sengupta is a faculty of HRM, Leadership, and Management Consulting at K.J. Somaiya Institute of Management Studies and Research, Mumbai, for more than a decade.