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Many of the psychological and sociological assumptions that originally guided human resources practices no longer apply to the work environment of the 1990s. Providing practical, hands-on approaches to the types of problems currently confronting human resources managers, this book presents detailed reports on interventions in nine actual cases representing some of the most profound challenges facing organizations and their employees today.

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• Introduction
• Changing Human Resources Challenges: Responding to New Dilemmas in the Work Setting
• Part I Dilemmas: Individual Sources
• 1 The Evaluation of an Employee Assistance Program as an Agent for Organizational Change
• 2 Stress Management Intervention and Assessment: An Overview and an Account of Two Experiences
• 3 Coping with Total Life Stress
• Part II Dilemmas: Organizational Sources
• 4 Managing Marginal Performance in an Organization Striving for Excellence
• 5 Regrouping after Downsizing
• 6 Organizational Systems and Employee Ethics
• Part III Dilemmas: Cultural Sources
• 7 The Promise and the Practice: Elder Care Initiatives in the Corporate Culture
• 8 Righting Racial Wrongs/m-/Change in a South African Organization
• 9 Applying an Entrepreneurship Development Program to Economic Problems in the Buffalo Area
• 10 The Expanding World of the Human Resource Specialist: The Pace Accelerates
• Index

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Abraham K. Korman, Ph.D., is the Wollman Distinguished Professor of Management at Baruch College, City University of New York. He is the author of six books and approximately 50 articles in the areas of leadership decision making, work motivation and management, and organizational development. He has lectured extensively on these topics in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and the Far East, and he has consulted for such Fortune 500 companies as Beatrice Foods, the Fairchild Corporation, Amstar, American Airlines, Rexham, Lever Brothers, RCA, and the New York Daily News .