Human Resource
Management Briefs
Forthcoming from Cognella
Twenty-two briefings.
A question of judgment.
Every decision eventually meets a person.
Hiring someone. Giving feedback. Making a schedule. Deciding who gets promoted, how work is rewarded, or what happens when performance slips.
Human Resource Management Briefs introduces HR through the decisions managers make. Twenty-two briefings combine research, employment law, true management stories, and the competing priorities that demand judgment.
Each briefing stands alone and can be read in one sitting. Together, they introduce hiring, developing, evaluating, rewarding, and retaining employees.
For people who will manage people.
The primary reader is an undergraduate who will manage employees but may never work in an HR department. The book is designed for introductory HR courses in business and applied management programs.
Its hospitality stories give the decisions a setting. The questions apply across industries. Individual briefings also help new supervisors approach unfamiliar responsibilities.
Short readings.
Room to think.
An opening line introduces the central tension. Clear explanations, evidence, and management stories give readers different ways into the material.
Each briefing closes with a Knowledge Check and Vocabulary. Across the book, more than 160 terms build a shared language for discussing work and employment.
The briefings prepare students for conversation. They arrive ready to weigh competing priorities and explain a decision’s consequences.
The Huckleberry Milkshake
At twenty, I became a manager at Swiftcurrent Motor Inn in Glacier National Park. When a rush of huckleberry milkshake orders overwhelmed the coffee shop, I unplugged the machine.
The guests, employees, and work were still there. The book begins with that first management job, before introducing the concepts that might have helped me understand it.
Twenty-two briefings
- Human Resources
- Managing People Strategically
- The Rules of the Game
- Beyond Compliance
- When Lines Are Crossed
- Understanding the Job
- Building the Applicant Pool
- Winning the Right Applicants
- What’s Important When Hiring?
- What Methods Are Better?
- Making Better Hiring Decisions
- The Employment Interview
- How People Learn
- Designing Better Training
- Making Training Stick
- Putting Work on Record
- Day-to-Day Performance Management
- Pay and Fairness
- Rewarding Performance
- Beyond the Paycheck
- When Employees Organize
- Why People Stay, and Leave
Bring it into the classroom.
For questions about the book, course fit, or adoption, contact Michael.
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