Human Resource Management in Government: A South African perspective on theories, politics and Processes 3e explores the many facets of the employment relationship within government institutions. These activities include strategic employment processes, such as talent management, trade union interactions; human resource governance (metrics); and the future of human resource management.

Key features in the second edition include:

• the latest local and international applied research and practice.

• insight into the public human resource management functions.

• best practices in talent management.

• trends and best practices in human resource management in the public sector in other African and developing countries.

• topical and current information that encourages continuous self-evaluation; and an interactive structure with activities, questions, research reports and the latest court decisions related to the HR field; and

• three new themes were added to this edition to make the book even more relevant to the reader, namely the influence of the 4th Industrial revolution, green demands on the public employer and decolonisation.

Written by a team of experienced and emerging authors with up-to-date views and covering current research projects, Human Resource Management in Government: A South African Perspective on Theories, Politics and Processes 3e is indispensable for all public managers, HR specialists, corporate strategists, trade unions, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate Public Administration and Management students
 

Part 1: Context and theoretical overview 

• Chapter 1: General introduction 

• Chapter 2: Theoretical perspectives

  Part 2: Strategising and planning 

• Chapter 3: Green human resource management

• Chapter 4: The Fourth Industrial Revolution and human resource management

• Chapter 5: Workforce planning

  Part 3: Obtaining suitable talent 

• Chapter 6: Equalising opportunities by means of affirmative action

• Chapter 7: Talent management: Recruitment, selection and appointment

  Part 4: Performance and career development 

• Chapter 8: Appraising and managing employees’ performance in the public service

• Chapter 9: Career management

• Chapter 10: Reflections on learning programmes

  Part 5: Compensating and caring 

• Chapter 11: Compensation in the public sector

• Chapter 12: Establishing and maintaining wellness

  Part 6: Employment relations 

• Chapter 13: Understanding and managing employment relations

• Chapter 14: Terminating the services of employees

  Part 7: Future of human resource management 

• Chapter 15: Role of political leadership in a dynamic and changing human resource environment

• Chapter 16: Human resource management in the developed and developing world

• Chapter 17: Decolonisation and human resource management

• Chapter 18: Human resource governance

• Public Managers

• HR Specialists

• Corporate strategists

• Trade unions

• Undergraduate and postgraduate in Public Administration and

• Management students