Human Resource Management, 12th edition

Published by Pearson (1 December 2024) © 2025

  • Derek Torrington Emeritus Professor of Management, University of Manchester
  • Laura Hall
  • Stephen Taylor University of Exeter Business School
  • Carol Atkinson Manchester Metropolitan University Business School
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Title overview

Explore the fundamental principles in HR management

Human Resource Management, 12th Edition, by Torrington, Hall, Taylor and Atkinson provides a comprehensive coverage of human resource management backed up by latest academic research, practical examples and an approach that encourages you to question new ideas in the field. Well-known for its scope of topics, reader-friendly content and succinctness, the new edition of this text 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. It incorporates recent case studies, skills support and real-world references to apply your understanding of the chapter to a practical business scenario.

The textbook is an ideal introduction to human resources for students pursuing undergraduate business and management courses, as well as those on CIPD accredited courses.

 

Table of contents

  • Part 1: Human resource management in the modern world
  • The nature of human resource management
  • The global context for human resource management
  • HRM around the world
  • Strategic human resource management
  • Workforce planning, analytics and AI
  • Employability: the basic skills
  • Part 2: Resourcing: getting people in the right places to do the right things
  • Organisational agility and flexibility
  • Recruitment
  • Selection methods and decisions
  • Employability: skills in resourcing
  • Part 3: Performance: success through individual and collective achievement
  • Employee performance management
  • Leadership
  • Managing attendance and absence
  • Engagement and retention
  • Employability: skills in performance
  • Part 4: Development
  • Organisational change and development
  • The context of employee learning and development
  • Learning and development
  • Talent and career development
  • Employability: skills in learning and development
  • Part 5: Employee relations
  • Employee voice
  • The legal framework of work
  • Diversity and inclusion
  • Employability: skills in employee relations
  • Part 6 Reward: the contract for payment
  • Total reward and setting pay
  • Incentives
  • Pensions and benefits
  • Employability: skills in reward
  • Part 7 Contemporary issues
  • HRM and business ethics
  • Managing the human resource function
  • HR in small and medium-sized enterprises
  • Health and well-being
  • Managing the international workforce
  • The future of work
  • Advanced HR skills
  • Index

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