Schedule

Week1:Introduction (Overall Framework)

  • HRM Excellence Helps Xerox Rebound (Chap. 1)
  • The Future of Work (Chap. 2)
  • Fostering Innovation at IBM (Chap. 2)

Week2:Recruitment and Selection

  • Good Help Is So Hard to Find (Chap. 5)
  • Where John H. Daniel Company Finds Tailors (Chap. 6)
  • How Google Searches for Talent (Chap. 6)
  • Should Wal-Mart Standardize Selection? (Chap. 6)

Week3:Training and Development

  • The Learning Environment at United Technologies (Chap. 7)
  • Learning Is Business at Nokia (Chap. 7)
  • Grooming the Next Boss for Quest (Chap. 9)
  • Developing Employees at Booz Allen Hamilton (Chap. 9)

Week4:Performance Management & Separation/Retention

  • UnumProvident under Fire for Roster of Rejections (Chap. 8)
  • Forced Rankings Popular at Big Corporations (Chap. 8)
  • The Costco Way (Chap. 10)
  • Are "Family-Friendly" Practices Unfriendly to Some? (Chap. 10)

Week5:Compensation

  • What Could Take a Bite out of Whole Foods (Chap. 11)
  • American Airlines Pay Deal Doesn't Fly with Employees (Chap. 11)
  • Reinventing Motorola (Chap. 12)
  • Microsoft Abandans Stock Options (Chap. 12)

Week6:Labor Relations

  • How Briggs Is Revving the Engines (Chap. 14)
  • The Governor Squares Off against the Teachers (Chap. 14)

Week7:International HRM

  • China Unchains Ad Agencies (Chap. 15)
  • Employees Under Fire: Working in Iraq (Chap. 15)