Human Resource Management: Gaining a Competitive Advantage, 7/e
Raymond A. Noe,
The Ohio State University John R. Hollenbeck,
Michigan State University Barry Gerhart,
University of Wisconsin-Madison Patrick M. Wright,
Cornell University
ISBN: 0073530476 Copyright year: 2010
Retained Features
Retained Features
Evidence Based HR Sections within each chapter highlight the growing trend to demonstrate how HR contributes to a company’s competitive advantage. Evidence-based HR shows how HR decisions are based on data and not just intuition. The company examples used show how HR practices influence the company’s bottom line or key stakeholders including shareholders, employees, customers, or the community.
Instructor’s Guide to using NBC’s “The Office” contains teaching notes and suggested use of select episodes from the popular television show along with discussion questions and answers. Specific scenes have been selected which bring specific HR topics to life.
Test Bank Tags: Test Bank includes the Answer, Level of Difficulty, Learning Objective, AACSB Knowledge Category, and Bloom’s Taxonomy Question Type. Bloom’s categories include; Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation. AACSB knowledge categories are; Communication Abilities, Ethical Understanding and Reasoning Abilities, Analytical Skills, Use of Information Technology, Multicultural and Diversity Understanding, and Reflective Thinking Skills.
The boxes – “Competing through Globalization”, “Competing through Technology”, and “Competing through Sustainability” have all been updated with new references to recent companies and examples. Their practical relevance and timeliness to HR issues are essential for student learning in the classroom.
“Exercising Strategy" sections at the end of the chapters provide additional cases with discussion questions. The examples pose strategic questions based on real-life practices.
Self-Assessment Exercises at the end of the chapters provide a brief exercise for students to complete and evaluate their own skills.
Updated End-of-chapter BusinessWeek cases look at incidents and real companies as reported by Business Week and encourage students to critically evaluate the problem and apply the chapter concepts.
End-of-chapter video cases are located on the book’s website at www.mhhe.com/noe7e – the majority of videos are new to this edition, and have accompanying questions to challenge students to view HR issues and problems from multiple perspectives.
Learning objectives at the beginning of each chapter inform students about what they should understand after reading through the chapter.
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