Summary

Concise and practical, Managing Human Resources, Third Edition will help you gain a mastery of those issues while you learn the skills youll need as a manager of people. Using a managerial perspective, the book illustrates the role and impact of technology on globalization, compensation, legal, safety, and health issues. A host of timely features make this book interesting and thought-provoking: The Managerial Perspective, a new introduction for every chapter, focuses on the managerial perspective and summarizes why the material is relevant to managers. Managerial Skill Builder: Issues and Exercises, an end-of-chapter feature, presents a managerial situation relevant to each chapter topic and concludes with questions, issues, exercises, and group projects. Managers Notebook, located in every chapter, illustrates procedures, tips, and strategies you can really use in management. You Manager It Discussion Cases, found at the end of every chapter, focus on human resources issues from a managers perspective and encourage you to think critically. Technology and its influence on human resources information is addressed in every chapter. Globalization and its effect on human resources pr