This text is now available in a new edition – Please see ISBN 0070919909 Instructors and students ultimately determine the value of any higher education textbook. In its 7th Edition, Canadian Human Resource A Strategic Approach earned new adoptions and re-adoptions in more than sixty universities and colleges in Canada and became the best selling Human Resource Management text in the country. The text focuses on the strategic contribution of the human resource function in organizations. Its balanced coverage of both theory and practice; and emphasis on readability has endeared this text to hundreds of instructors and thousands of students in Canada. Schwind et al presents key HRM concepts, issues, and practices in the Canadian environment.
A lot of it is common sense, but the textbook is verbose and trying your attention span hard. Someone made a career out of creating the numerous charts, diagrams, and models featured here. Hint for future students: no matter what process it is, the last step is always Evaluation of results!
Probably one of my favourite textbooks I’ve come across throughout my university career. The case studies were fun and the book was super informative. Well worth the investment.
This textbook definitely contains all of the information needed to pass the course I used it for, but it is not written with busy, tired university students in mind. This book is verbose, long-winded, and repetitive.