10 th edition

A Handbook of

HUMAN
RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT
PRACT ICE

Michael Armstrong
 A Handbook of

HUMAN
RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT
PRACTICE
 A Handbook of

HUMAN
RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT
PRACTICE
10TH EDITION

Michael Armstrong

London and Philadelphia

First published by Kogan Page Limited as A Handbook of Personnel Management Practice in 1977
Second edition 1984
Third edition 1988
Fourth edition 1991
Fifth edition 1995
Sixth edition 1996
Seventh edition published by Kogan Page Limited as A Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice
in 1999
Eighth edition 2001
Ninth edition 2003
Tenth edition 2006

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© Michael Armstrong, 1977, 1984, 1988, 1991, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2006

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library.

ISBN 0 7494 4631 5

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Armstrong, Michael, 1928-

A handbook of human resource management practice/Michael Armstrong.–10th ed.
p.cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7494-4631-5
1. Personnel management–Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. Title.
HF5549.17.A76 2006
658.3–dc22
2005032487

Typeset by Jean Cussons Typesetting, Diss, Norfolk

Printed and bound in Great Britain by Cambridge University Press