Human Resource Management Applications: Cases, Exercises, Incidents, and Skill Builders by Stella M. Nkomo, Myron D. Fottler, R. Bruce McAfee

Synopsis

Providing cases, exercises, incidents, and skill builders, this text focuses on current, practical issues confronting human resources managers and others who implement personnel policies. Topics range from traditional applications to controversial issues of telecommuting, alcohol and drug abuse on the job, and discrimination in the workplace. Settings include a variety of organizations, with an emphasis on the service sector. Exercises are designed to be completed within a 50-minute class period. There is no subject index. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Biography

Stella M. Nkomo is a professor of business leadership at the University of South Africa's Graduate School of Business Leadership. She is the former chair of the Department of Management at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte, North Carolina. She holds a doctorate in business administration from the University of Massachusetts. Professor Nkomo is a former Scholar-in-Residence at the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College and Harvard University. Her nationally recognized work on race and gender in organizations, managing diversity, leading change, and human resource management appears in numerous journals, edited volumes, and magazines. Professor Nkomo has made numerous presentations to both academic and practitioner audiences. She is or has served on the editorial board of several management journals including the Organization, Academy of Management Review, Work and Occupations, Organization, and the Journal of Management Education. She is the author of three books including the Harvard Business School Press book, Our Separate Ways: Black and White Women and the Struggle for Professional Identity. She is a former member of the executive board of the Human Resource Management Division of the Academy of Management. Most recently, she completed a term as a member of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Management. Professor Nkomo is listed in the Who's Who in the Managerial Sciences. She is the recipient of many honors. During her tenure at the University of North Carolina, she received the Belk College of Business Research Excellence Award and the Bank of America Teaching Excellence Award. Professor Nkomo also served as a member of the Board of Governorsof the Center for Creative Leadership.

Myron D. Fottler is Professor of Health Care Administration and Director of Programs in Health Administration at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida. He was previously Professor and Director of the Ph. D. Program in Administration-Health Services at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He received his M.B.A. from Boston University and his Ph. D. in Business from Columbia University. His research interests include all areas of health services administration as well as strategic human resources management, job design, and the impact of organizational restructuring. His most recent books include Strategic Leadership for Medical Groups, Strategic Management of Human Resources in Health Services Organizations, Essentials of Human Resources Management in Health Services Organizations, and Applications in Personnel / Human Resources Management.

R. Bruce McAfee is a Professor of Management at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. He has an MBA from the University of Michigan, an MA from the University of Detroit, and a Ph.D. from Wayne State University. He has written 10 books, including Organization Behavior, Effectively Managing Troublesome Employees, Productivity Strategies, and Applications in Human Resource Management. He has also written over 50 articles and conducted more than 50 in-house training sessions for different corporations.