Revised edition of Human resource management, 2014.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Publisher's acknowledgements -- Human resource management in a changing world -- The nature of human resource management -- The global context for human resource management -- Human resource management around the world -- Strategic human resource management -- Workforce planning and analytics -- Employability: the basic skills -- Resourcing : getting people in the right places to do the right things -- Organisational agility and flexibility -- Recruitment -- Selection methods and decisions -- Employability: skills in resourcing -- Performance : success through individual and collective achievement -- Employee performance management -- Leadership -- Engagement and retention -- Managing attendance and absence -- Employability: skills in performance -- Development -- Organisational change and development -- The context of employee learning and development -- Learning and development -- Talent and career development -- Employability: skills in development -- Employee relations -- Employee voice -- The legal framework of work -- Equal opportunities and diversity -- Employability: skills in employee relations -- Reward: the contract for payment -- Total reward and setting pay -- Incentives -- Pensions and benefits -- Employability: skills in reward -- Contemporary issues -- Ethics and reputational management -- Managing the human resource function -- Health and well-being -- Managing the international workforce -- Advanced hr skills -- Glossary -- Index.