Human Resources Management in Canada (13th Edition) – PDF

About The Author

Gary Dessler

Professor Gary Dessler has degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York University, and the Baruch School of Business of the City University of New York. Gary’s best-selling Human Resource Management is also available in more than ten languages including Chinese and Russian. His other books include Fundamentals of Human Resource Management, Managing Now, Management: Modern Principles and Practices for Tomorrow’s Leaders, Framework for Human Resource Management, and Winning Commitment: How to Build and Keep a Competitive Workforce. Dr. Dessler's has published articles on employee commitment, supervision, leadership, and quality improvement in journals including the SAM Advanced Management Journal, Academy of Management Executive, Supervision, Personnel Journal, and International Journal of Service Management.

For the past few years, Dr. Gary Dessler has focused on his research and textbook writing, and on giving seminars, lectures, and courses in Asia and around the world on topics including modern human resource management, evidence-based human resource management, strategic management, and talent management.

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Nita Chhinzer

Dr. Nita N. Chhinzer is an Associate Professor of Human Resources at the University of Guelph's Department of Management. Her study focuses on Strategic Human Resource Management, including downsizing techniques, procedures, and ethics. Nita Chhinzer earned her MBA in 2000 and went on to work in management positions at firms such as HP and Nortel.

She saw then that downsizing's execution, decisions, and implementation had important personal, organisational, and social consequences, pushing her to return to academia to further our understanding of downsizing. In 2006, she received her Ph.D. in Management from McMaster University, with a concentration on human resources.
As a result, her research focuses mostly on downsizing actions, antecedents, outcomes, and decision-making.

She won the Emerald Literati Award (Education + Training) in 2019 for her research into how companies define graduate student employability, and she was named one of Canada's top 25 HR professionals in 2016. She is also a co-author of the best-selling textbooks Human Resource Management in Canada (now in its 14th edition) and Human Resource Management (now in 5th edition).