Effective personnel management - Alan Anderson

Effective Personnel Management is inEffective Management series which is an innovative new series of high–quality management training texts allying student centered learning to core business knowledge. Each text will be a complete resource for managers, trainers and students of business who are studying at NVQ levels 4 and 5.

In each of the main functional areas of business the books take a highly developed activity–based approach to learning and link key generic management skills to underpinning knowledge and concepts.

In Effective Personnel Management, Anderson stresses that the management of people is both a line role and a function of staff specialists. Unlike other texts in the area, Anderson argues for a company–wide approach to managing people focusing on both task–organizational demands and the genuine needs and aspirations of individuals at work.

The text contains examples and case studies throughout emphasizing a competency and skills based approach to learning.