Human Resource Management 9th Edition by Derek Torrington
ISBN: 9780273786634, 9780273786689, 9780273786641
This book has been evolving through many changes since the very first edition of its predecessor
Personnel Management in 1979. Our objective has always been to track the development of the personnel/
human resource (HR) function and its activities. Our preface to the eighth edition in 2011 opened by
saying: ?Since the last edition the world has undergone a major recession, triggered by a banking crisis
unprecedented in modern times. This has created great uncertainty about how human resource management
(HRM) will be changed.? Then, many people still assumed that it would be like other recessions,
followed by a steady recovery, renewed growth and we would all feel more secure. Three years
on we can be more certain of some changes that will continue for the foreseeable future:
