Includes index. Martin, C. L. & Kidwell, R. E., Jr. (2001). HRM from A-Z: critical questions asked and answered. Boston: McGraw-Hill/Irwin.

Absenteeism -- Accidents -- Adult learners -- Alcohol abuse -- Alcohol and the office party -- Battered and abused coworker -- Beepers, pagers, and cell phones -- Belligerence -- Casual clothing -- Change -- Commission sales -- Complaints and excuses -- Corporate culture -- Dating clients -- Discipline -- Diversity -- Drug testing -- E-mail use/abuse -- Emotions and expressing opinions in meetings Employment-at-will -- Empowerment -- Expatriate manager -- Family concerns and questions -- Fetal protection policy -- FMLA -- Gambling -- Gender and leadership -- Gossip -- Group conflict -- Health inquiries of job applicants -- Health plan alternatives -- Height and weight inquiries of applicants -- Honesty tests -- Hygiene -- Incentives -- Independent contractors -- Internet use/abuse -- Interview questions and sex discrimination -- Job descriptions -- Job hopping -- Jokes and humor at work -- Key job responsibilities -- Kidnapping, terrorism, and security while abroad -- Language restrictions -- Leadership style -- Learning organization -- Micro-management -- Military leave -- Money as a motivator -- Napping at work -- Natural attrition -- Nosy boss -- Off-duty conduct -- Older workers -- OSHA audits -- Overtime -- Pay secrecy -- Performance evaluation and the angry employee -- Performance feedback and career development -- Personality conflicts -- Pregnant employees -- Privacy and HRIS -- Promotion from within -- Promotion to management -- Quality management during a downsizing -- References checks -- Religion and muzak in the office -- Religious holidays and accommodation -- Repatriation -- Romance in the workplace -- Salting -- Sexual harassment -- Sick leave banks -- Slackers and withholding effort on a team -- Smokers -- Soliciting fellow employees for fund-raisers -- Strategy and HRM -- Succession planning -- Team building -- Theft and forgiveness -- Theft prevention -- Tokenism -- Tongue rings and tattoos -- Tuition reimbursement -- Turnover -- Unemployment compensation -- Union comfort level -- Violence at work -- Weather, storms and natural disasters -- Work relationships and getting along -- X generation -- X and Y management -- Xenophobia -- Yellow dog contracts -- Zero defects

" HRM from A-Z is an innovative, new offering for Human Resource Management classes from McGraw-Hill/Irwin. This inexpensive yet comprehensive supplemental text for the HRM course helps students focus on the practical application of theoretical approaches to HRM. It is a means to introduce practical application into HRM topic areas such as staffing, training and development, performance appraisal, and reward systems. HRM from A-Z is made up of two discrete yet complementary parts: Questions (where the major issue is defined) and Answers (where the suggested answer for the questions in the first part of the book are discussed.)." - From the Publisher.