Human resources is rapidly evolving into a data-rich field but with big data comes big decisions. The best companies understand how to use data to make strategic workforce decisions and gain significant competitive advantage. Human Resource Management: People, Data, and Analytics, Second Edition introduces students to the fundamentals of talent management with integrated coverage of analytics in every chapter. Features tied to SHRM competencies and data exercises give students hands-on opportunities to practice the analytical and decision-making skills they need to excel in today’s job market. Whether your students are future managers or future HR professionals, they will learn best practices for managing talent across the lifecycle in the changing workplace. This title is accompanied by a complete teaching and learning package. Learning Platform / Courseware Sage Vantage is an intuitive learning platform that integrates quality Sage textbook content with assignable multimedia activities and auto-graded assessments to drive student engagement and ensure accountability. Unparalleled in its ease of use and built for dynamic teaching and learning, Vantage offers customizable LMS integration and best-in-class support. It’s a learning platform you, and your students, will actually love. Assignable Video with Assessment Assignable video (available in Sage Vantage ) is tied to learning objectives and curated exclusively for this text to bring concepts to life. LMS Cartridge : Import this title’s instructor resources into your school’s learning management system (LMS) and save time. Don’t use an LMS? You can still access all of the same online resources for this title via the password-protected Instructor Resource Site. "The text offers useful and appropriate examples of the use of analytics in HRM." -- Gwendolyn M. Combs "An interesting and novel approach to teaching HRM." -- Michael W. Hill "[This] is a good, comprehensive Human Resource Management textbook for the Undergraduate level or for Graduate students with a concentration in HR." -- Patricia A. Ippoliti "Excellent data-driven text." -- Kevin J. Hurt "A state-of-the-art textbook on HRM....A refreshing approach to HRM that highlights the importance of HRM in maintaining and building the bottom line for companies and enhancing work environments." -- Robert W. Halliman "…adds elements of currency and insight based on business and industry trends. The book purports to focus on data analysis and improving HR decision making skills based on data, objectivity, ethics, and legal frameworks." -- Jalane Meloun "This [HRM] textbook does a much better job of acknowledging the importance of data and gives students a chance to work with data–a big plus." -- Brian D. Webster "This textbook is an all-encompassing book that covers in detail, the critical performance areas of human resource management and how information technology is used for decision making and in creating a competitive advantage." -- Benjamin B. Yumol "[Human Resource Management] is a well written, well organized textbook with current cases taken from today’s headlines, laid out in an instructor and student friendly way. If our college wants to emphasize data driven analytical HRM strategic decision making, this is the perfect introductory text." -- Otha Carlton Hawkins "With the recent changes to the HR field as a whole to be a more integrated discipline, Bauer et al′s text does a spectacular job of expanding upon core content from organizational behavior, business law, business analytics, leadership, and management and frames that content in an HR lens…this text provides in-depth integration of those topics fused with current case studies and references to popular culture." -- Lou L. Sabina "The practice and science of HR come together!" -- Joseph Simon "I would say that this HR textbook is a more research-focused and data-driven textbook. It really focuses on the importance of leveraging data to make more informed HR decisions. It is evidence-based and draws more heavily on research. I think it is a textbook that would challenge our students more and better prepare them for the changing nature of human resources." -- Kathleen Jones "[This is] the start of a new era in HR textbooks by linking content to the SHRM competencies and making the concepts more applicable in practice using the EBDM approach." -- Randy McCamey "The text provides relevant and current research data through real world scenarios which impacts current HRM challenges." -- Mike Bojanski "This text provides a very engaging and illustrative overview and analysis of current topics in HRM. It engages the students to think beyond the content of the book and evaluate how they have been or how they want to be treated in organizations from an HR perspective." -- Bruce Gillies "This text is an excellent Introduction to Human Resources text. Its major advantage over competing books is the conveying the g