Includes references and index.

Human resource management: organizational context -- Human resource management: environment and strategies -- Job analysis, team analysis and flexible job environment -- Human resource planning -- Recruitment -- Selection, placement and induction -- Human resource development -- Performance appraisal and development -- Employees training -- Management development -- Career planning and development -- Internal mobility and absenteeism -- Change management and organisation development -- Job evaluation -- Employee remuneration - base salary and allowance -- Incentives, fringe benefits and social security -- Safety and health -- Motivation, leadership and communication -- Participation, empowerment an quality circles -- Grievance and discipline -- Industrial relations: conceptual analysis -- Trade unions and employer's associations -- Industrial conflicts -- Collective bargaining -- Human resource accounting, records, audit, research and information -- Ethical issues in human resource management -- E-human resource management -- International human resource management -- Contemporary issues in HRM -- Retention, separation and re-employment.