Managing People in Organizations

Thomas Klikauer holds two MAs (Boston & Bremen) and a PhD in Industrial and Business Studies (Warwick Business School). He is a Senior Lecturer at the Sydney Graduate School of Management (SGSM) at Western Sydney University, Australia. Dr. Klikauer has been teaching MBAs for well over a decade and has over 300 publications, including seven books published by Palgrave Scholarly and thirty journal articles on management, business ethics, industrial relations, and Human Resource Management.

• 1. Introducing Management People in Organizations: What is this Book About and How to Use it2.Getting the Right People: Recruitment and Selection3. Managing Workplace Relations: The Three Actors at Work4.Peopleand Skills: Learning and Human Resource Development5. Designing Work: Creating Productive Work Systems6. Promoting Health: Occupational Health and Safety7. Creating Success: Performance Management8. Rewarding Success: Managing Compensation and Rewards9. Strategies to Manage People: Strategic HRM10. Managing People Ethically: Ethics at Work and in Management.

This is an excellent addition to the HRM textbook market. It embraces an international outlook and a critical perspective to discuss the key issues that face managers when managing people in contemporary business organizations. There are very useful discussion questions, cases and exercises through the book, plus links to external sources and videos.