Human Resource Management: Text and Cases

Preface

Fortunately or unfortunately, we come from a corporate background. During our working years as practising HR managers across industries and geographies, we often felt the need for a more practical, pertinent and relevant training in human resource management (HRM) in our business schools. Once we shifted sides from corporate jobs to teaching, we found that while schools have become much conscientious about bringing in industry experience into the pedagogy by way of industry professionals coming and teaching and extensive use of case studies, textbooks did fall short of the ability to give students a peek into the real world of human resources management. After having spent some time teaching and understanding the students’ side of ...