Personnel : a diagnostic approach /
Glueck, William F.
Personnel : a diagnostic approach / William F. Glueck - Dallas : Business Publications, Inc., c1978 - xvi, 833 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Includes index.
Determining personnel needs -- Recruiting, selecting, and oriented personnel -- Career development, performance evaluation, and development of personnel compensations, benefits, and services -- Safety, equal employment opportunity, and labor relations -- Discipline, control, and evaluation.
This revised edition retains the basic structure and approach of the first edition. But the book has been completely rewritten to improve its readability. Of course, the revision updates all the material in the book. Each chapter begins with a diagnostic model and an analysis of how the individual and environmental factors affecting the personnel function influence the topic of the chapter. The revision discusses the diagnostic factors more fully, and the organization of the chapter is more directly tied to the model. As in the first edition, the model provides a mechanism for continuity for the book. We know that the personnel function is not performed the same way in all organizations. Each chapter concludes with recommendations for the most effective way to use personnel in different organizations. The mechanism used to do this is seven model organizations. These seven differ systematically by size (number of employees), complexity of products or services, and volatility of organization (degree to which the products/ services change over time). Examples of the model organizations are given from business, government, and hospitals. The reader is invited to focus on the organization where she or he has worked or wants to work. Thus the reader can get an idea of how personnel management is practiced. This book is based on a larger number of research references. No footnotes clutter the pages however, as the references are listed at the end of each chapter. Where it is possible to summarize these findings, these summaries take the form of propositions in the conclusions and recommendations section. A new emphasis in this edition is to contrast personnel practices in different sectors of the economy.
256019517
PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
HF 5549.5 .G58 1978
Personnel : a diagnostic approach / William F. Glueck - Dallas : Business Publications, Inc., c1978 - xvi, 833 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Includes index.
Determining personnel needs -- Recruiting, selecting, and oriented personnel -- Career development, performance evaluation, and development of personnel compensations, benefits, and services -- Safety, equal employment opportunity, and labor relations -- Discipline, control, and evaluation.
This revised edition retains the basic structure and approach of the first edition. But the book has been completely rewritten to improve its readability. Of course, the revision updates all the material in the book. Each chapter begins with a diagnostic model and an analysis of how the individual and environmental factors affecting the personnel function influence the topic of the chapter. The revision discusses the diagnostic factors more fully, and the organization of the chapter is more directly tied to the model. As in the first edition, the model provides a mechanism for continuity for the book. We know that the personnel function is not performed the same way in all organizations. Each chapter concludes with recommendations for the most effective way to use personnel in different organizations. The mechanism used to do this is seven model organizations. These seven differ systematically by size (number of employees), complexity of products or services, and volatility of organization (degree to which the products/ services change over time). Examples of the model organizations are given from business, government, and hospitals. The reader is invited to focus on the organization where she or he has worked or wants to work. Thus the reader can get an idea of how personnel management is practiced. This book is based on a larger number of research references. No footnotes clutter the pages however, as the references are listed at the end of each chapter. Where it is possible to summarize these findings, these summaries take the form of propositions in the conclusions and recommendations section. A new emphasis in this edition is to contrast personnel practices in different sectors of the economy.
256019517
PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
HF 5549.5 .G58 1978