Human Resource Management (8th Edition) [Hardcover]

Gary Dessler (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 15, 2000 | ISBN-10: 0130141240 | ISBN-13: 978-0130141248 | Edition: 8 Sub

For Human Resource Management (HRM) and Personnel courses. The #1 best-selling HRM book in the market, Dessler's Human Resource Management provides a comprehensive review of personnel management concepts and practices in a highly readable form. This edition focuses on the high-performance organization-building better, faster, more competitive organizations through HR; while continuing to offer practical applications that help all managers deal with their personnel-related responsibilities.

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Human Resource Management provides readers with a complete, comprehensive review of essential personnel management concepts and techniques in a highly readable and understandable form. Coverage emphasizes essential themes throughout the book, including the building of better, faster, more competitive organizations through HRM; practical applications that help all managers deal with their personnel-related responsibilities; and technology and HR. Specific topics include the strategic role of human resource management; equal opportunity and the law; job analysis; personnel planning and recruiting; employee testing and selection; interviewing candidates; training and developing employees; managing organizational renewal; appraising performance; managing careers and fair treatment; establishing pay plans; pay-for-performance and financial incentives; benefits and services; labor relations and collective bargaining; employee safety and health; managing human resources in an international business; human resources information systems and technology. For practicing Human Resource Managers as well as any business managers who deal with human resource/personnel issues.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 736 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 8 Sub edition (August 15, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130141240
• ISBN-13: 978-0130141248
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 8.1 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,507,445 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointment int he Details, December 13, 1999

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Norma J. Peal, Ph.D. (Los Angeles, Califonia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Human Resource Management (8th Edition) (Hardcover)

I was delighted to learn that Dessler had a new HR management book available August 1999 for an MBA class I was teaching beginning in September 1999. Before selecting the book I reviewed an earlier edition and was pleased with the organization, topics, and simple style. I selected the newest edition without seeing it. Imagine my shock and embarrassment when I started reading it after assigning chapters to my students. I found a few typos in the beginning and laughingly told my students I would give them bonus points for any they found. I thought it would encourage them to read carefully. I had to discontinue the practice after about probably the first dozen were in the first couple chapters. One class we concentrated on writing a resume. The example of a "good" resume that Dessler provided was terrible. Not only was it confusing, it was from the 1980s. I am sorry that my students had to pay $. I am teaching the class again in February so will need to find another book. Mr. Dessler, I hope you encourage those in HR to be more careful in the details of their work than you were in your book.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Dessler Knows the Field, September 18, 2000

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Dr. Ross Prizzia (Honolulu, Hawaii) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Human Resource Management (8th Edition) (Hardcover)

Dessler's approach in Human Resource Management is thorough, comprehensive, contemporary, and very readable. The figures, tables, and other visuals are excellent for models and practical use. The cases and application exercises are relevant to the real world and greatly assist in the overall understanding of the main concepts of each chapter. Chapters on employee testing and selection, appraising performance, job analysis, and personnnel planning and recruiting, are particularly well presented. The complexities of establishing pay plans and financial incentives are explained in simple terms for the reader and include revelant examples. The text also comes with supplementary materials which greatly enhance it's use and application. This book can be used for lower as well as upper division courses at the University or College level.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Substantive yet Simple, April 16, 2000

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Jafry Munoz (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Human Resource Management (8th Edition) (Hardcover)

I found the book indeed a must for "managers". It is essentials-full and highly concise, a product of many years of thought. If not for some minor spelling errors, the book would have been near to perfection.