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The text focuses on enhancement of personal competencies while providing a theoretical and experiential approach to the study of HRM. The author provides the conceptual background and content necessary to understand the relevant issues in HRM, along with individual and group exercises that require the application of chapter content to specific problems designed to develop critical personal competencies. Salient Features Students "learn by doing"by participating in experiential exercises that require the application of HRM knowledge expected of practicing managers and HR generalists. New content includes: latest research on expatriates, equal employment opportunity laws, internet recruiting, gender wage differences, social security and pensions. Experiential exercises (second half of the book) Focus on developing critical personal competencies Author known for his"Put a penny in, take a penny out" invention-missed the Nobel Prize narrowly Latest HR research