Special Human Resource Management Practices and Strategy

Today, one of the most valuable assets of companies is their workforce.  Primarily, the importance of information is increased and the human  factor that absorbs and uses it by creating value has become much more  essential. One of the most critical steps that managers need to take to  be successful is to enhance human power in the most efficient way  possible. Companies that want to be long-lasting need to make HR the  main item on their agenda. Human resource practices are critical for  companies to survive. In addition to firms in general, family firms are  also a special and the most common type of business in the economy.  Hence, family firm HR practices are also an important part of this book.  Among the most famous features of a family firm, complex HR management  practices are on top of it all. Owners and family members are all aware  that non-family employees are needed, and non-family managers are  required for the success and sustainability of the family firm. Hence,  family firms cannot have biased, bifurcated, or different HR practices  towards non-family employees. Readers will find this book comprehensive  and inclusive of new issues of HR management literature. The book is  comprised of chapters, each describing current and important practices  and problems of HR management. Along with the family firm-specific  problems like nonfamily managers, women entrepreneurship, and nepotism,  chapters cover the state-of-the-art topics and findings in the HR  management literature. This includes organizational development and HR  management relationship, discrimination and nepotism, women in family  firms and tourism, HR accounting and digital age, quality and  management, behavior, and change management. Students and scholars of  human resource management, along with the leaders of modern management  teams, will benefit from this book from the first page to the last page.  Each chapter will carry its reader to the next level of understanding  of issues and findings of human resource management.