This area provides support material for some of our leading textbooks. Each textbook has its own page containing material including:
- sample chapter from the textbook
- web links to key websites referenced in the text
These files can be downloaded to your PC or printed straight from this area. This information is available free of charge to all students. To access the Student Support material, simply click on the image of the textbook that you are interested in.
Gillian Watson and Kevin Gallagher
This new edition (based on Michael Armstrong's 'Managing Activities') concentrates on offering a more strategic approach to management and contains critical perspectives on the subject area. Includes a wide range of features to support student learning, case studies and examples, learning objectives, discussion questions, exercises and chapter summaries.The text is designed to cater for all students studying:- The Managing for Results module as part of the recently introduced CIPD Leadership and Management Standards. - Introductory management modules on business and HR degree programmes.
This student textbook support material contains examples of examination questions authored by the CIPD Chief Examiner for Managing for Results, Tina Stephens. This is provided for students to practice and prepare for their examinations.
Michael Muller-Camen, Richard Croucher and Susan Leigh
Contextualising HRM theory and practice can be extremely difficult for students with limited knowledge of the world of work and workplace realities. This unique textbook addresses this problem by providing a practical, case-study based approach to HRM. This text is closely structured around the changing role of the HR function and gives students exclusive access to the latest cutting-edge research and developments in HR. It covers a comprehensive range of topics including technological innovation, equality and diversity, work-life balance, coaching and international perspectives.
Alan Mumford and Jeff Gold
Management Development has long been established as the leading text in this area, and this new edition offers an updated look at the management development field.
Designed for students of Management Development on the CIPD PDS qualification and on business and HR degree programmes, the text also offers a comprehensive overview of management development to practitioners.
The book builds on the content of previous editions and on the authors' wealth of experience in this area, by adding a greater emphasis on student learning through the inclusion of a range of usefully instructive features in each chapter.
The authors have compiled a list of useful web links for each chapter and have supplied them here to make it easier for students to read around the subject area.