This highly engaging, bestselling textbook, now in its eighth edition offers a comprehensive examination of contemporary human resource management issues and debates. Aimed at undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA students, this title provides an authoritative source for students of CIPD Advanced qualifications.

Julie Beardwell was Chief Moderator Standards at the CIPD until 2015 and has over 25 years' experience of leading and teaching on HR programmes.

Amanda Thompson is Head of the Department of HRM and Head of the Department of Corporate Development at De Montfort University

Beardwell & Thompson's text offers a critical, social-science focused approach to HRM which caters for the students studying HRM at the higher level of undergraduate as well as being suited to those on MBA and postgraduate courses. This text has a specialised International HRM section, which gives it a competitive edge over others, and makes it suitable for a wider range of courses. It is also mapped closely to the relevant CIPD modules, and is edited and authored by academics who are heavily involved with the CIPD.

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• Chapter 1: An Introduction to Human Resource Management
• Chapter 2: Strategic Human Resource Management
• Chapter 3: Contextualising HRM
• Chapter 4: HRM and the Labour Market
• Chapter 5: Talent Management
• Chapter 6: Managing Equality and Diversity
• Chapter 7: Learning and Development
• Chapter 8: Leadership and Management Development
• Chapter 9: Organisational Development
• Chapter 10: The Employment Relationship and Employee Rights at Work
• Chapter 11: Employment
• Chapter 12: Performance Management
• Chapter 13: Employee Reward
• Chapter 14: Employee Voice
• Chapter 15: Comparative HRM in the Context of Financialization, Financial Crisis and Brexit
• Chapter 16: Employment Relations in Emerging Economies: China and India