Includes index.

Contents: Meeting present and emerging strategic human resource challenges -- Managing work flows and conducting job analysis -- Understanding equal opportunity and the legal environment -- Managing diversity -- Recruiting and selecting employees -- Managing employee separations, downsizing, and outplacement -- Appraising and managing performance -- Training the workforce -- Developing careers -- Managing compensation -- Rewarding performance -- Designing and administering benefits -- Developing employee relations -- Respecting employee right and managing discipline -- Working with organized labor -- Managing workplace safety and health -- International HRM challenge -- Appendix A: Concise dictionary of HR terminology.