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For undergraduate or graduate level human resource management courses. Prepare future managers with an understanding of HR management skills. Managing Human Resources prepares all future managers with a business understanding of human resource management skills. The non-functional HR approach used in this text also makes human resources relevant to anyone who has to deal with HR issues, even those who do not hold the title of manager. This edition contains up to 600 new references, a new set of cases that address HR in small businesses, and coverage on the global economic crisis and it's impact on HR. New to this Edition Expose students to a variety of HR issues: Manager's Notebooks present a variety of issues that managers confront daily-such as how to provide feedback during an appraisal or preparing employees for a layoff. Approximately half of the Manager's Notebooks are new in the seventh edition. New! HR in Small Businesses discusses specific concerns and challenges that small businesses face when it comes to the HR topic covered in that chapter. Bring the concepts to life: Discussion Cases are provided at the end of each chapter to support each of the major themes of the book. New! HR in Small Businesses cases deal with concrete situations facing a small business. Offer the most current information: New to the seventh edition. 600 new references cited within the text. Most intro vignettes are new, substantially updated, or revised. Approximately two-thirds of the end-of-chapter cases are new or have been extensively revised. 75% of boxed features are new or have been revised. New coverage on the special human resource issues that confront small businesses is included. New coverage of the effect of the most recent global economic upheaval and how managers can effectively deal is included.