TY - BOOK AU - French,Wendell L. TI - The personnel management process: human resources administration and development SN - 0395255295 AV - HF5549 .F73 1978 U1 - 658.3 PY - 1978/// CY - Boston PB - Houghton Mifflin KW - Personnel management N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - Two features of this book are particularly important. One is a general systems view of organizations. This view permits examination of personnel management as a dynamic network of processes, systems, and conditions that affect all organizations and the people in them in profound ways. Another feature of the book is its extensive application of contemporary behavioral science theory, research, and practice to the management of certain critical organizational processes, including job design, staffing, training and development, appraisal, compensation, leadership, organizational justice, and collective bargaining. The topic of women and minorities in management receives additional attention in this edition, and increasingly pervasive impact of federal legislation is evident throughout the book ER -