Managing Human Resources or Machine Dreams

Managing Human Resources: Productivity, Quality of Work Life, Profits

Author: Wayne Cascio

Wayne Cascio's Managing Human Resources, 7/e, is perfect for the general management student whose job inevitably will involve responsibility for managing people. It explicitly links the relationship between productivity, quality of work life, and profits to various human resource management activities and, as such, strengthens the students' perception of human resource management as an important function, which affects individuals, organizations, and society. It is research-based and contains strong links to the applicability of this research to real business situations.

Table of Contents:

	List of Boxes and Special Features
	Preface
Pt. 1	Environment	1
Ch. 1	Human Resources in a Globally Competitive Business Environment	2
Ch. 2	The Financial Impact of Human Resource Management Activities	40
Ch. 3	The Legal Context of Employment Decisions	76
Ch. 4	Diversity at Work	118
Pt. 2	Employment	155
Ch. 5	Analyzing Work and Planning for People	156
Ch. 6	Recruiting	198
Ch. 7	Staffing	236
Pt. 3	Development	287
Ch. 8	Workplace Training	288
Ch. 9	Performance Management	328
Ch. 10	Managing Careers	370
Pt. 4	Compensation	409
Ch. 11	Pay and Incentive Systems	410
Ch. 12	Indirect Compensation: Employee Benefit Plans	460
Pt. 5	Labor-Management Accommodation	501
Ch. 13	Union Representation and Collective Bargaining	502
Ch. 14	Procedural Justice and Ethics in Employee Relations	540
Pt. 6	Safety, Health, and International Implications	577
Ch. 15	Safety, Health, and Employee Assistance Programs	578
Ch. 16	International Dimensions of Human Resource Management	616
	Glossary	661
	Credits	667
	Name Index	679
	Subject Index	689

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Machine Dreams: Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science

Author: Philip Mirowski

This is the first cross-over book in the history of science written by an historian of economics, combining a number of disciplinary and stylistic orientations. In it Philip Mirowshki shows how what is conventionally thought to be "history of technology" can be integrated with the history of economic ideas. His analysis combines Cold War history with the history of the postwar economics profession in America and later elsewhere, revealing that the Pax Americana had much to do with the content of such abstruse and formal doctrines such as linear programming and game theory. He links the literature on "cyborg science" found in science studies to economics, an element missing in the literature to date. Mirowski further calls into question the idea that economics has been immune to postmodern currents found in the larger culture, arguing that neoclassical economics has surreptitiously participated in the desconstruction of the integral "Self." Finally, he argues for a different style of economics, an alliance of computational and institutional themes, and challenges the widespread impression that there is nothing else besides American neoclassical economic theory left standing after the demise of Marxism. Philip Mirowski is Carl Koch Professor of Economics and the History and Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame. He teaches in both the economics and science studies communities and has written frequently for academic journals. He is also the author of More Heat than Light (Cambridge, 1992) and editor of Natural Images in Economics (Cambridge, 1994) and Science Bought and Sold (University of Chicago, 2001).