Publisher's Synopsis
Human resources is the set of individuals who make up the workforce of an organization, business sector, or economy. Human capital is sometimes used synonymously with human resources, although human capital typically refers to a more narrow view. The text Managing Human Resources: Productivity, Quality of Work Life, Profits explicitly links the relationship between productivity, quality of work life, and profits to various human resource management activities.First chapter exposes the relationship between human resource management and organizational performance through the use of nonlinear modeling technique. In second chapter, we review the human resources management outsourcing research in domestic and overseas, establish a model and then propose research hypotheses. The aim of third chapter is to demonstrate the impact of the effectiveness of the application of human resources management system in corporate performance which perspective of workers in the banking sector in Jordanian firm. Fourth chapter concerns with the voluntary disclosure of information on intellectual capital and knowledge assets in Tehran Stock Exchange. Fifth chapter focuses on the role of human resource information system in the process of manpower activities. Sixth chapter presents the scientifically solid theory of human capital production function, which explains tangible and intangible human capital's worth to business scorecards in terms of profit and loss account metrics. Studies on the human resource management of X Company in Tai'an city have been proposed in seventh chapter. Eighth chapter presents an idea to apply intelligent decision support system (IDSS) approach in human resources decision making activities by using some of the potential intelligent techniques. In ninth chapter, an attempt has been made to test the hypothesis for administrative skills, competitive advantage and human resource development (HRD) policies. New insights into human resource management of large public hospitals with multi campuses in china have been presented in tenth chapter. Eleventh chapter evaluates the impact of human resource competencies on productivity. The aim of twelfth chapter is to study the amount of employees' conceived justice in the organization as well as its different aspects including distributive justice, procedural justice and interactional justice as well as its impacts on human resource productivity. The purpose of thirteenth chapter is to explore the effect of organizational citizenship behavior on human resources productivity enhancement case study. The relationship between human resource productivity (HRP) and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) has been established in fourteenth chapter. Fifteenth chapter aims at examining the influence of human resources cost on corporate productivity. Sixteenth chapter focuses on the proposition that employee consultation and participation practices are positively related to improved labor productivity. Based on a process perspective, last chapter proposes an integrated model that comprehensively considers crucial constructs relevant to HR capability and organizational effectiveness.
