Taking a real-world, practical approach, this title makes the business research process relevant and effective for students.

Equips business students with the study skills, interpersonal skills and professional skills that they need for successful study and employment. This text contains examples and case studies relevant to a range of business settings, including HRM, marketing and finance, so that students can understand how the skills they learn apply in practice.

Intended for for core HRM modules on HRM and business degree programmes for second and final year undergraduate or postgraduate levels and the CIPD People Management and Development module. This work covers topics including private equity firms, diversity, international HRM and globalisation, the role of line managers, and the meaning of work.

Managing performance is a critical focus of HR activity. This title reveals what leading organisations are doing to manage their employees' performance and how they are delivering results. It shows you how to improve the management of your employees' performance.

Concentrates on offering a strategic approach to management with critical perspectives on the subject area. This text also includes a range of features to support student learning including a range of case studies and examples, learning objectives, discussion questions, exercises and chapter summaries.

Team work has unique challenges and pressures which a system of team reward can successfully address if correctly implemented. This work brings you the thinking on the issues and addresses questions such as: Should team pay complement or replace individual pay? And, how do you deal with different roles within your team, such as team leaders?

Written specifically to cater for the CIPD Professional Standards for the Employee Relations elective. This title is also relevant and suitable for students looking to take a practical approach on an employee/industrial relations module on an HRM or business degree programme at undergraduate or postgraduate level.

How easy would your job be if people working in your sector wanted to work for you rather than any other employer? This book helps you assess where your organisation is and make the business case for creating the sort of great company atmosphere that will attract top people who will deliver excellent results.

Offers coverage of cross-cultural social relations in the work setting. This book examines the inter-cultural competencies needed by managers dealing with employees from different cultural backgrounds and point to implications of an awareness of cultural difference for HRM strategies and policies.

Offers an introduction to human resource management. This book introduces students to key concepts and gives coverage of legislation. It is designed to cater for the CIPD Certificate in Personnel Practice as well as those seeking an overview of the subject area.

If you don't know where you started, how can you tell how far you've come? This work builds a complete system that links training directly to business needs. It shows how to use some simple tools to measure trainee performance and then put a financial value on it - so that trainees know how well they are doing.

Every year thousands of people like you decide to make the move to independent consultancy. And next year hundreds of them will go crawling back to the security of paid employment. This is a about how to be a consultant.

Fifth edition.

Covering the CIPD employment law specialist elective, this book is useful to students studying Employment Law as part of a HR or business degree programme. It also covers the key areas of employment law from the formation of contracts of employment to the preservation of human rights.

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is an integral part of the CIPD Professional Standards. This book provides practical guidance and a theoretical overview. It focuses on: critical debate about issues in CPD - outlines how to organise and encourage CPD - spells out how seniors and professionals can use CPD.

Deals with the fundamental processes needed by trainers getting to grips with their role, especially those newly appointed. Through explanations of selected theories, models and techniques, this text is suitable for those undertaking an introductory-level training module, such as the CIPD's Certificate in Training Practice.

Aims to help you develop leadership within your organisation from board level right down to team leaders.

Offers practical tools, techniques and a model for developing a communications strategy. This work covers topics such as: organisation and change; the role of communication and HR's growing part within it; the principles and uses of communication in an organisational context; external communication and how HR should be involved; and more.

A collection of over 40 practical learning exercises on leadership development. This book covers details on how the exercises work providing background context on where, when and how to use them.

Offering a basic and practical approach to HR and Personnel issues, this text caters for both CIPD students on the Certificate in Personnel Practice and non-CIPD students on foundation programmes or first year undergraduates taking an introduction to HR module.