Human Resource Management

“It is well written and students find a clarity that is missing from some other texts. It is balanced and avoids the mistake of accepting wholesale underlying assumptions about the employment relationship that some HRM books do.”

Dr Alan Roe, Leeds University Business School

Develop skills to put theory into practice, using academic research and current issues

Human Resource Management, 11th Edition, by Torrington, Hall, Taylor and Atkinson is praised for its comprehensive scope of topics, coverage of important HRM issues and succinctness. It is a great introduction to human resources for students pursuing undergraduate business and management courses, as well as those on CIPD accredited courses. Human resource management helps those aspiring to or working in HR or management roles. The eleventh edition has been thoroughly updated with the economic, social and legal employment practice changes and is specifically designed to cover the issues and debates facing HRM today, backed up by academic research.

Additional resources such as multiple choice questions and a glossary are available at go.pearson.com/uk/he/resources.

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About the authors

Written by a close-knit team, the authors share each other's writing as it proceeds according to an agreed structure. All have great experience of teaching and examining HR at undergraduate, post graduate and professional level, as well as thorough and deep research portfolios, and CIPD membership.

Derek Torrington  is Emeritus Professor of Management at the University of Manchester, Chartered Companion for the CIPD and previous Chief Examiner

Laura Hall is a freelance academic and has carried out work for a wide range of bodies, including the CIPD.

Stephen Taylor is a senior lecturer in HRM at the University of Exeter Business School, and a Chartered Companion for the CIPD.

Carol Atkinson is Professor of HRM and Associate Dean for Research at Manchester Metropolitan University Business School. She is also a member of the CIPD Manchester Branch Committee.

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