The academic and professional careers if many thousands of HRM students and managers have been underpinned by their reading of Torrington et al's long-standing, comprehensive and market leading text Human Resource Management. Now, this same author team has developed a brand new concise text, Fundamentals of HRM, aimed primarily at students who are studying for general business and management degrees, or who are studying HRM as part of a combined honours degree with another discipline in arts, languages, humanities or sciences. Adopting the same accessible and practical perspective on the discipline, the book focuses on the core responsibilities of people management which every manager will have to undertake and understand. A section on skills such as interviewing, coaching and performance appraisal supports this practical approach.

Table of Contents:
Contents Guided tour Preface Acknowledgements   1          Introducing human resource management             Defining human resource management             HRM and the achievement of organisational effectiveness                     Major trends in the HRM business environment             Major themes in contemporary HRM practice             Key debate: The state of the psychological contract             Summary propositions             General discussion topics             Further reading             References   Part 1 Managing people at work   2. Organising a workforce       Workforce organisation       Flexibility for organisational benefit       Key debate: Work-life integration       Summary propositions       General discussion topics       Further reading       References   3. Recruitment and retention       Methods of recruitment               Employer branding       Staff turnover rates and trends       Staff retention strategies       Key debate: The significance of skills shortages in the UK       Summary propositions       General discussion topics       Further reading       References   4. Selection       Selection as a two-way process       Selection criteria       Selection methods       Final selection decision making       Key debate: Validity and use of selection methods       Summary propositions       General discussion topics       Further reading       References   5. Performance management        Introducing performance management       Stages in a performance management system       Implementation and critique of performance management       Evaluation of performance management systems       Key debate: 360-degree feedback       Summary propositions       General discussion topics       Further reading       References   6. People development       The UK learning and development context       The value of learning and development to organisations and individuals       The line manager and learning and developme