Human Resource Management, 12th edition

Published by Pearson (December 1, 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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Human Resource Management, 12th Edition, by Torrington, Hall, Taylor and Atkinson is an ideal introduction to human resource management that incorporates economic, social and legal employment practice changes to cover the issues and debates facing HRM today.

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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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