HRM CONCEPTS

This guide is based on Human Resource Management in a Business Context,

and includes links to extra articles, notes, tips and exercises.

Introduction to Human Resource Management

• Managing People
• People management
• Management theory
• The Concept of HRM
• Defining human resource management
• Maps and models of HRM
• The Harvard map of human resource management
• Hard HRM
• Guest's Model of HRM
• Alternative HRM Models
• The Discourse of HRM
• HRM and Business Effectiveness

HRM and the business environment

The employment market

Organizational HRM

Culture and commitment

Strategic HRM

Resources: plans and strategies

Recruitment and selection

Managing diversity

Performance management

Developing people

• HRD and the organization

• From training to development
• The learning organization
 • Development programmes
• Induction - orienting new employees
• Management development
• Training methods
• Leadership development
• Evaluating and costing training

Additional online resources

• Online MBA Rankings - Study HR through these programs

• ASTD - American Society For Training & Development

Employee relations

• Conflict, bargaining, involvement and well-being

• Employee relations as an activity
• Conflict
• Tribunals and arbitration systems
• The negotiating process
• Models of bargaining
• Employee involvement
• Employee involvement in practice
• Work-life balance
• Health and safety
• Stress

Overview of HRM

• The status and significance of HRM

• HRM and globalization
• HRM and 'best practice'
• Driving forces of HRM
• The impact of HRM
• What next?