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Human Resource Management
People, Data, and Analytics
- Talya Bauer - Portland State University, USA
- Berrin Erdogan - Portland State University, USA
- David Caughlin - Portland State University, USA
- Donald Truxillo - University of Limerick, Ireland
November 2018 | 728 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Winner of the 2020 Most Promising New Textbook Award from the Textbook & Academic Authors Association (TAA)
Human resources is rapidly evolving into a data-rich field but with big data comes big decisions. The best companies understand how to use data to make strategic workforce decisions and gain significant competitive advantage.
Human Resource Management: People, Data, and Analytics introduces students to the fundamentals of talent management with integrated coverage of data analytics. Features tied to SHRM competencies and data exercises give students hands-on opportunities to practice the analytical and decision-making skills they need to excel in today’s job market. Engaging examples illustrate key HRM concepts and theories, which brings many traditional HRM topics to life. Whether your students are future managers or future HR professionals, they will learn best practices for managing talent in the changing workplace.
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Human resources is rapidly evolving into a data-rich field but with big data comes big decisions. The best companies understand how to use data to make strategic workforce decisions and gain significant competitive advantage.
Human Resource Management: People, Data, and Analytics introduces students to the fundamentals of talent management with integrated coverage of data analytics. Features tied to SHRM competencies and data exercises give students hands-on opportunities to practice the analytical and decision-making skills they need to excel in today’s job market. Engaging examples illustrate key HRM concepts and theories, which brings many traditional HRM topics to life. Whether your students are future managers or future HR professionals, they will learn best practices for managing talent in the changing workplace.
FREE POSTER: Am I Making a Good Human Resource Management Decision?
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Included in the Interactive eBook! SAGE Premium Video tools and resources boost comprehension and bolster analysis. Videos featured include Inside HR interviews where students can hear how real companies are using HR to gain competitive advantage, as well as SHRM and TedTalk videos. Learn more.
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Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Part I. HRM in Context
Chapter 1. Introduction to Human Resource Management
Chapter 2. Strategic HRM, Data-Driven Decision Making, and HR Analytics
Chapter 3. Data Management and Human Resource Information Systems
Chapter 4. Diversity, Inclusion, and Equal Employment Laws
Chapter 5. The Analysis and Design of Work
Part II. Managing the Talent Life Cycle
Chapter 6. Workforce Planning and Recruitment
Chapter 7. Selection Processes and Procedures
Chapter 8. Training, Development, and Careers
Chapter 9. Performance Management
Chapter 10. Managing Employee Separations and Retention
Part III. Reward System
Chapter 11. Developing a Pay Structure
Chapter 12. Rewarding Performance
Chapter 13. Managing Benefits
Part IV. Special Topics in HR
Chapter 14. Employee and Labor Relations
Chapter 15. Employee Safety, Well-Being, and Wellness
Chapter 16. Opportunities and Challenges in International HRM
Appendix: 2016 SHRM Body of Competency and Knowledge
Glossary
Notes
Index
Supplements
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“The text offers useful and appropriate examples of the use of analytics in HRM.”
University of Nebraska Lincoln
“An interesting and novel approach to teaching HRM.”
University of Georgia
“[This] is a good, comprehensive Human Resource Management textbook for the Undergraduate level or for Graduate students with a concentration in HR.”
Rutgers University
“Excellent data-driven text.”
Columbus State University
“A state-of-the-art textbook on HRM.”
Austin Peay State University
“…adds elements of currency and insight based on business and industry trends. The book purports to focus on data analysis and improving HR decision making skills based on data, objectivity, ethics, and legal frameworks.”
Barry University
“This [HRM] textbook does a much better job of acknowledging the importance of data and gives students a chance to work with data–a big plus.”
Ball State University
“This textbook is an all-encompassing book that covers in detail, the critical performance areas of human resource management and how information technology is used for decision making and in creating a competitive advantage.”
Claflin University
“[Human Resource Management] is a well written, well organized textbook with current cases taken from today’s headlines, laid out in an instructor and student friendly way. If our college wants to emphasize data driven analytical HRM strategic decision making, this is the perfect introductory text.”
Alamance Community College
“With the recent changes to the HR field as a whole to be a more integrated discipline, Bauer et al’s text does a spectacular job of expanding upon core content from organizational behavior, business law, business analytics, leadership, and management and frames that content in an HR lens…this text provides in-depth integration of those topics fused with current case studies and references to popular culture.”
Stetson University
Sample Materials & Chapters
1. Introduction to Human Resource Management
2. Strategic HRM, Data-Driven Decision Making, and HR Analytics