Introduction to Human Resource Management

Introduction to Human Resource Management presents the fundamental concepts and issues of this core business studies course.The book is primarily intended for second and third year undergraduate business students studying HRM, and for MBA students. Pinnington and Edwards provide a concise and lively introduction to the topic, maintaining dialogue between HRM and Industrial Relations perspectives throughout. The book contains five major case studies based on real organizations and experiences related by managers and human resource managers.

The book may be used both for individual and group learning. It contains study questions, further reading recommendations, and a dictionary of terms, as well as indexes of authors, subjects and companies. Through reading this text students will come to understand more about how employees have been managed in the past, and how they are currently managed, and will be encouraged to investigate ways that people may be better managed in the future.