Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Section 1: Development of the HRM field and HRM education -- 1. Parallel approaches to development of the HRM field and HRM education / Vida Gulbinas Scarpello -- 2. Human resource management education : past, present and future / Thomas A. Mahoney -- Section 2: HR master's programs in industrial relations and in industrial and organizational psychology -- 3. The origins, development, and current state of professional master's programs in industrial relations / John A. Fossum -- 4. What we should know but (probably) never learned in school : thoughts on HR education in psychology departments / Cameron Klein ... [et al.] -- Section 3: HR education in business schools -- 5. Developing quality human resource professionals : identifying the appropriate undergraduate curriculum, applying human resource competencies, and validating human resource competencies / Thomas J. Bergmann and Scott Lester -- 6. The critical components of HRM undergraduate preparation : textbook, application, and competency development / Rebecca A. Thacker -- 7. Teaching HR to undergraduate students : the Colorado and Copenhagen Business School approaches / David B. Balkin and Leon Schjoedt -- Section 4: New emphasis on international HRM education -- 8. The graduate class in international human resource management : strategies and tactics / Greg Hundley -- 9. Managing people in global markets / Colette A. Frayne -- 10. Educating the HR professional and general manager on key issues in international HRM / Wayne F. Cascio -- Section 5: Neglected topics in HRM education -- 11. Rewards : from the outside looking in / Jerry M. Newman -- 12. Conceptual tools for studying the ethics of human resource management / John R. Deckop -- 13. A model of the transfer of knowledge in human resources management / Dianna L. Stone, Kimberly Lukaszewski and Eugene F. Stone-Romero -- Section 6: Micro-and macro-organizational concepts relevant to HRM -- 14. Some psychological concepts essential for human resource managers / Brian Murray and James H. Dulebohn -- 15. Fundamentals of organizing : structural design and its relationship to HRM practices / Vida Gulbinas Scarpello -- Section 7: Stakeholder views of HRM education -- 16. HR executives' views of HR education : do hiring managers really care what education HRM applicants have? / Lynn M. Shore, Patricia Lynch and Debra Dookeran -- 17. Labor stakeholder views of HR professionals : implications for graduate HR education / Mary E. Graham and Patrick P. McHugh -- 18. Strategic partnerships between academia and practice : the case for nurturing undergraduate HR education / Debra J. Cohen -- Section 8: HR success constraints -- 19. "Be there, or be in HR!" The trials and tribulations of human resource management in business schools / Sara L. Rynes, Skip Owens and Christine Quinn Trank -- 20. Why human resources managers fail as players in the strategic management process / Nancy A. Bereman and Gerald H. Graham -- 21. Why knowledge of core business functions is crucial for HR managers / Herman A. Theeke -- Section 9: HR professional success and parting thoughts -- 22. Human resource professional success / David A. Pierson -- 23. Parting thoughts on human resource management education in the United States / Vida Gulbinas Scarpello.

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