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Human Resource Management Practices

Assessing Added Value

  • Provides hands-on recommendations for choosing effective and efficient means to manage HR
  • Gives evidence-based recommendations based on empirical research from various disciplines
  • Prepares HR managers to effectively address prominent issues such as workforce diversity
  • Provides insights developed inside and outside of the Anglo-American research area
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Management for Professionals (MANAGPROF)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
  2. Adding Value and HRM Practice

    • Dirk Buyens, Jasmijn Verbrigghe
    Pages 15-30
  3. Realizing the Highest Value of Investments in Talent Management

    • Mariëlle Sonnenberg, Vera van Zijderveld
    Pages 31-51
  4. How to Evaluate Employer Brands: A Monetary Approach

    • Pascal Güntürkün, Till Haumann, Alfred Lukasczyk
    Pages 53-67
  5. Assessing the Return on Investments in Human Resource Development

    • Cornelia Tonhäuser, Susan Seeber
    Pages 69-87
  6. The Added Value of Expatriation

    • Yvonne McNulty
    Pages 89-106
  7. Creating Value Through Occupational Health Management

    • Karlheinz Sonntag, Ralf Stegmaier
    Pages 125-145
  8. Investments in Work-Life-Balance Pay Off

    • Manfred Bührmann
    Pages 147-162
  9. Added Value of Employee Financial Participation

    • Erik Poutsma, Eric Kaarsemaker
    Pages 181-196
  10. Does Employee Downsizing Really Work?

    • Deepak K. Datta, Dynah A. Basuil
    Pages 197-221
  11. Determining Outcomes of HRM Practices

    • Wolfgang Becker, Bianca Brandt, Harald Eggeling
    Pages 223-235

About this book

This book is designed to help practitioners and academics to assess the added value of HR practices. It provides hands-on recommendations for choosing effective means to manage HR and specific suggestions aimed at facilitating the measurement of HR practices’ impact on value creation. Evidence-based recommendations are made by drawing on thorough empirical research from various research traditions and academic disciplines. It covers a wide variety of tasks faced by the HR function and specifically addresses new challenges such as assessing the added value of work-life balance practices.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Human Resource Management, University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany

    Maike Andresen

  • Leoni AG, Nuremberg, Germany

    Christian Nowak

About the editors

Maike Andresen is a Professor of Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior and holds the chair of Human Resource Management at the University of Bamberg, Germany. Maike has published articles in key academic journals and in edited volumes and has authored several books in her fields of research. Her research interests include expatriation, global career management, management development, work flexibilization and diversity management.

Christian Nowak is a lecturer and research assistant at the Chair of Human Resource Management at the University of Bamberg, Germany. Christian holds a graduate degree in International Management.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Human Resource Management Practices

  • Book Subtitle: Assessing Added Value

  • Editors: Maike Andresen, Christian Nowak

  • Series Title: Management for Professionals

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08186-1

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-08185-4Published: 10 October 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34385-3Published: 10 September 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-08186-1Published: 26 September 2014

  • Series ISSN: 2192-8096

  • Series E-ISSN: 2192-810X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 235

  • Number of Illustrations: 27 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Human Resource Management, Organization, Industrial and Organizational Psychology

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eBook USD 39.99
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Hardcover Book USD 54.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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