Human Resource Function in Educational Administration, The

Human Resource Function in Educational Administration, The, 7/e

William B. Castetter, University of Pennsylvania (Emeritus)
I. Phillip Young, The Ohio State University

Published June, 1999 by Prentice Hall Career & Technology

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Summary

For Human Resources/Personnel in Education courses. With its comprehensive approach, this classic core text is designed to cover each of the eleven processes related to the human resource function. The text focuses on the management of the school system's human resources and discusses whose qualities and performance determine system outcomes in educational administration. Several important themes throughout the book provide a conceptual foundation for gaining insight into the nature of the human resource function, its eleven processes, its boundaries, and how it interlinks to other administrative functions.

Features

NEW—A new author, I. Phillip Young, of The Ohio State University—Brings current, state-of-the-art treatment of technology, diversity, selection, and recruitment to this edition.
NEW—Includes current research, reform movements, political developments with educational significance, and new approaches to long-standing problems with the human resource function. NEW—Covers unionism, litigation deriving from discrimination, public criticism of poor teaching, and poor teacher appraisal practices in their present form.
NEW—Updates coverage of key internal and external factors—That affect educational administration and the individuals employed in the educational endeavor.
Includes the dimensions of the human resource function—Mission, human organization, cultural, environmental, organizational, and ethical.
Covers social change and its impact on the human resource function.
Features a chapter overview, objectives, chapter terms, tables, figures, review and preview sections, discussion questions, notes, and a supplementary reading in each chapter.
Emphasizes the importance of system mission, policy, purposes, programs, projects, and linkage to the human resources function.

Table of Contents
I. FOUNDATIONS OF THE HUMAN RESOURCE FUNCTION.

1. The Human Resource Function in Perspective.
2. Strategic Planning and the Human Resource Function.
3. Information Technology and the Human Resource Function.

II. HUMAN RESOURCE PROCESSES: RECRUITMENT, SELECTION, INDUCTION, DEVELOPMENT, AND APPRAISAL.

III. EMPLOYMENT CONTINUITY, JUSTICE, AND UNIONISM.