New Features:

Each new edition benefits from comments, suggestions, and recommendations offered by colleagues, students, instructors, and HRM specialists. Listening and discussions with this diverse audience has resulted in new and strengthened content illustrations, and examples such as:

• The strategic aspects of HRM are discussed, analyzed , and used as a framework to display how the field has progressed in the last three decades.
• The diagnostic model is made more understandable and easier to grasp for students.
• The streamlined treatment of diagnosing is thorough, but is not dense or overwhelming.
• Extensive coverage of global, technological, strategic, ethical, and diversity issues and concepts are topics in cases, exercises, and other chapter elements.
• Legal matters are so crucial to HRM and this is emphasized in many locations.
• New research and approaches to online recruiting, staffing, selection, and training is spotlighted.
• Compensation decision making and controversy is illustrated with examples.
• Many updated or new Chapter Openers, HRMemo elements in the margins are interspersed throughout the Chapters.
• Ethics and ethical decisions are pointed out again and again.
• Managing a career is the responsibility of each person. The career management process is illustrated with examples and factual information.
• The impact of information technology is presented in a number of chapters as it gains credibility because of its efficiency.
• The cost/benefit view of HRM is a common theme used in this edition.

Retained Features:

• This website includes a link to Human Resources Online. Students stay current and expand their knowledge in the field of human resources by completing approximately twenty online exercises in such areas as training and employee development, selection and recruitment, compensation and benefits, labor relations, employee separation and retention, as well as training and employee development. In each exercise, students review one or more online resources, such as articles covering a recent HR trend. They then answer some challenging questions. For the busy instructor, Human Resources Online includes password-protected teaching notes that provide insights and answers to each question.
• Internet applications within the text are enhanced with the new HROnline and Business Around the World, which links directly to the leading HR magazines and professional sources. In addition, the coverage of Internet resources continues to be an important topic in this new edition. Each chapter is linked to Internet resources and include www addresses with strong student appeal.
• An emphasis on managerial responsibilities and actions pertaining to HRM activities is woven throughout the content and chapter elements, making the text relevant to general managers as well as human resource majors.
• Key themes have been integrated in the content and pedagogical elements of each chapter: managing diversity, legal issues of HRM, productivity growth, globalization, impact of technology, embedded nature of TQM, strategically managing HRM, enhancing employee skills, changing nature of work, and current examples.
• Author Ivancevich uses "Legal Practical Alerts" in each chapter to cite brief legal points, cases, or facts that enhance student understanding of these important issues in HRM.
• The coverage of Internet resources continues to be an important topic in this new edition. Each chapter is linked to Internet resources and include WWW addresses with strong student appeal.
• Each of the five parts uses a video case and discussion questions to integrate material relevant to the participation section of the book.