Armstrong's Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice, 17th Edition

PREFACE TO THE 17TH EDITION

This 17th edition of the Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice includes new chapters on people management, the conceptual framework of SHRM, artificial intelligence and HRM, skills-based HRM, skills analysis, skills intelligence, role development and innovation skills. Other chapters have been extensively revised and the Handbook has been brought up-to-date by reference to the findings of a number of significant research projects and other investigations of how HRM operates in practice.

The plan of the book is illustrated in the ‘route map’ shown in Figure 0.1. The logic of the sequence of the 19 parts is as follows:

• Part 1 provides a conceptual framework for the rest of the handbook. It consists of a general ...