Hired Hands or Human Resources?: Case Studies of Hrm Programs and Practices in Early American Industry

by Bruce E. Kaufman

Book Overview

In a companion volume to Managing the Human Factor, also from Cornell, Bruce E. Kaufman shows how American firms transitioned from the traditional "hired hand" model of human resource management (HRM) to the modern "human resources" version popular today. Kaufman illuminates through fifteen detailed case studies the structure and operation of HRM programs and practices across a diverse range of American business firms spanning the fifty...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801448301
• ISBN13: 9780801448300
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: ILR Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher