Includes index.

Contents: Foundation and challenges: The Challenges of personnel management -- Environmental challenges -- The Challenge of discrimination -- Preparation and selection: Human resource planning -- Job analysis and design -- Recruitment -- The Selection -- Development and evaluation: Orientation -- Training and development -- Career planning -- Performance appraisal -- Compensation and protection: Compensation management -- Employee benefits and services and income security -- Occupational health and safety -- Employee and labour relations: Employee relations and the quality of work life -- Employee relation practices -- The Union-management framework -- Union organization and collective bargaining -- Collective agreement administration -- Human resource management in perspective: Human resource audit -- Future challenges.