Case Studies

Critical Employment, Ethical, and Legal Scenarios in Human Resource Development by Claretha Hughes (CC BY-NC-SA).

This book provides mini-cases for HRD and other disciplines to use for engaging students in incident discussions. Exploring ways to solve problems and make decisions about situations that occur at work.

Textbooks

An Australian and New Zealand Human Resource Management Guide to Work Health and Safety by Lynnaire Sheridan (CC BY-NC).
An Australian and New Zealand Human Resource Management Guide to Work Health and Safety presents an historical overview of work health and safety, outlines its key theories and principles then explains how it can be operationalised through adopting and enacting a safety management system.

Human Resource Management – Canadian Edition by Stéphane Brutus and Nora Baronian (CC BY-NC-SA ).

From Concordia University, this book introduces students to the basic aspects of managing human resources in a Canadian context. The strategies and theories outlined in this book will be of use to any manager—not just those in HR—who needs to know about recruiting, selecting, training, and compensating people. This book is currently in pilot version.

Human Resource Management from the University of Minnesota (CC BY-NC-SA ).

Teaches HR theories and strategies to a variety of management professionals who need to know how to recruit, train, and compensate people.  Based on a text published in 2011.As of January 2024, this resource has had 1.5 million page views, 719,000 visitors and 40,000 downloads.

 People Learning and Development: Transforming people and organizations through learning by Monica Affleck (CC BY-NC).

This guide serves as an interactive resource for HR/business management students, HR professionals, and anyone involved in employee development at work. Developing a skilled workforce is top of mind for today’s organizations. The world as we know it is changing and so are our workplaces.

Strategic Project Management for Human Resources by Debra Patterson (CC BY-NC-SA).

Designed to learn about project management from a human resources perspective; describes processes and applications, and roles of the team in implementing these processes; designed to help students understand and apply the knowledge and skills learned about projects and people.

Workplace Role Play Scenarios by Dr Sarah Steen (CC BY-NC).

This book has been designed to provide a range of workplace scenarios that can be utilised for experiential learning covering difficult conversations, negotiation and mediation. The scenarios provide learners with the opportunity to engage in different role-plays and provide learners with the opportunity to reflect on their experience with reflective questions.

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