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Features
  • Learning Objectives provide succinct information about the expected measurable student outcomes after reading the chapter.
  • Newsbreak is a published article drawn from Australian and Asian newspapers on issues relating to HRM. It is tied to an end-of-chapter exercise for students.
  • Letter to the Editor is a provocative viewpoint about one of the issues within the chapter. It is linked to an end-of-chapter exercise for students called What's your view? where students prepare an argument for or against the case.
  • An Integrative Comprehensive Case Study concludes each part. This case is designed to provide 'real-life' situations allowing students to analyse the issues raised as they relate to the concepts and theories provided in the relevant chapters.
  • Soapbox provides material for a class survey of 6 questions based on the material in the chapter, leading to critical discussion in class.
  • Ethical Dilemma is written in the style of a case study and provides situations where ethical issues are raised. It is supplemented by questions to aid discussion.
  • Small case studies at the end of each chapter are supplemented by discussion questions and exercises. These provide a variety of situational and 'real-life' cases allowing students to undertake analysis of the issues in relation to the concepts and theories provided in the text.
  • Practical Exercises provide approximately four scenarios with work to be undertaken by students in groups. Based on situational and 'real life' cases.