Human Resource Management: 9th Edition

Author: Gary Dessler (USA)
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: In the field of human resources, Dessler has become a brand of excellent textbooks, and Human Resource Management is the best among the best of this brand. This book provides readers with rich information, innovative ideas, and practical methods through a systematic and comprehensive knowledge system, helping them maintain their professional expertise and stay up-to-date with the developments and changes in the field of human resource management, thereby adapting to the ever-evolving strategic needs of enterprises and organizations for human resource management.
—Translated by the author Gary Dessler, Professor of Human Resource Management, has a tremendous global influence and is widely known and revered by Chinese human resource managers and researchers.
—Edited by the book editor Professor Gary Dessler, a renowned management professor at the University of Florida in the United States, Human Resource Management has been revised and published nine times since its debut in 1978 and has consistently received attention and praise from the American and international management education community. Since its introduction and publication in 1999, this book has been one of the best-selling human resource management textbooks in the Chinese market. With six parts and 16 chapters, presented in an exceptionally readable and understandable manner, the book comprehensively, systematically, and thoroughly elaborates on the fundamental principles of human resource management, as well as the basic functions, procedures, techniques, and methods of enterprise human resource management. It discusses the basic concepts, techniques, and methods of job analysis, human resource planning and recruitment, selection and testing, candidate interviews, employee training and development, organizational renewal, performance evaluation and performance management, employee career management, strategic compensation management, performance-based pay and bonus management, benefits and services, labor relations and collective bargaining, employee safety and health, and global human resource management from the perspective of improving enterprise performance and competitiveness. The book features numerous compelling case studies from various enterprises, providing readers with effective references and guidance for understanding and applying advanced human resource management concepts and methods. Through special feature columns such as "Strategic Human Resource Management," "Online Human Resource Management," "The New Workplace," "Entrepreneurs and Human Resource Management," "High-Performance Secrets," and "Research Insights," the book highlights the latest hot topics in human resource management. Guided by a practice-oriented approach, it also provides experiences and case studies from well-known enterprises, as well as various exercise activities to help readers review and apply their professional knowledge in human resource management. The target audience for this book is extremely broad, not only suitable for teachers, undergraduate and graduate students, MBA and EMBA students in management majors across various economic and management colleges and universities nationwide, as well as training for management personnel in various enterprises and institutions, but also for management consultants, human resource management experts, and self-study learners interested in human resource issues as a must-read reference.