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The text aims to provide students with the technical background needed to be a knowledgeable consumer of human resource (HR) products and services, to manage HR effectively, or to be a successful HR professional. While clearly strategic in nature, the text also emphasizes how managers can more effectively acquire, develop, compensate, and manage the internal and external environment that relates to the management of human resources.
Key Features:

Strategic focus. The text shows students how HR contributes to a company's competitive advantage.
"Finding and Keeping the Best Employees" is a highlighted element within the chapter text. These modules contain current information on the methods that companies use to find and retain the best employees.
Two types of boxes --"Competing through Globalization" and "Competing through Technology"-- are found in every chapter. These boxes provide excellent real-business examples to underscore key concepts.
Competing through Sustainability" boxes are included in the chapters. These boxes discuss how companies succeed in a competitive environment considering aspects of social responsibility like environmental and employment issues.
About the Author:

Patrick Wright
Professor of Human Resource Studies and Director of the Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University

Barry Gerhart
The Bruce R. Ellig Distinguished Chair in Pay and Organizational Effectiveness and Director of the Strategic HR Program at the University of Wisconsin?Madison.

John Hollenbeck
Currently the Eli Broad Professor of Management at the Eli Broad Graduate School of Business Administration at Michigan State University.

Raymond Noe
The Robert and Anne Hoyt Professor of Management at The Ohio State University.
Table of Content:

Chapter 1.Human Resource Management: Gaining a Competitive Advantage

PART I: THE HUMAN RESOURCE ENVIRONMENT
Chapter 2.Strategic Human Resource Management
Chapter 3.The Legal Environment: Equal Employment Opportunity and Safety
Chapter 4.The Analysis and Design of Work

PART II: ACQUISITION AND PREPARATION OF HUMAN RESOURCES
Chapter 5.Human Resource Planning and Recruitment
Chapter 6.Selection and Placement
Chapter 7.Training

PART III: ASSESSMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF HR
Chapter 8.Performance Management
Chapter 9.Employee Development
Chapter 10.Employee Separation and Retention

PART IV: COMPENSATION OF HUMAN RESOURCES
Chapter 11.Pay Structure Decisions
Chapter 12.Recognizing Employee Contributions with Pay
Chapter 13.Employee Benefits

PART V: SPECIAL TOPICS IN HUMAN RESOURCES
Chapter 14.Collective Bargaining and Labor Relations
Chapter 15.Managing Human Resources Globally
Chapter 16.Strategically Managing the HR Function

CASE STUDIES
Chapter 1. Business World of ethics and efficiency
Chapter 2. Business World from hiring to partnership
Chapter 3. Business World HR in the personal orbit
Chapter 4. Business World Right man, wrong job
Chapter 5. Business World a tale of great expectations