Human Relations Brief Fifth Edition

by Barry L. Reece

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The fifth edition of Human Relations: Principles and Practices continue to use Barry Reece's and Rhonda Brandt's innovative Total Person Approach as it covers the seven major themes of effective human relations. This approach provides students with the transferable skills to help them get a job, keep a job, and be successful in their chosen working environment. Like the big book, this brief edition focuses on the major themes of human relations, but particularly emphasises a more personal, show more versus organisational viewpoint. Highlights of the new fifth edition include: - New Expanded coverage of human relations in the Age of Information - focusing on various issues related to technology, the Internet and the information age - New Human Relations in Action boxed inserts, which offer a mix of how to tips and examples from real world organisations - New Companion student and instructor web sites - Revised The Total Person Approach asserts that human behaviour at work is influenced by many independent personal traits like physical fitness, values, self-awareness, integrity, and emotional control - Continued Real-World Emphasis.In order to prepare students for the working environment, every chapter includes an Opening Vignette that features prominent individuals or national corporations; and a Career Corner that provides students with practical solutions to common human relations problems show less