{"id":21,"date":"2020-09-03T09:10:02","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T13:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/hrmcanadian\/front-matter\/about-the-book\/"},"modified":"2020-09-03T13:26:24","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T17:26:24","slug":"about-the-book","status":"publish","type":"front-matter","link":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/hrmcanadian\/front-matter\/about-the-book\/","title":{"raw":"About the Book","rendered":"About the Book"},"content":{"raw":"\nThis open textbook <em>Human Resources Management - Canadian Edition<\/em>, by St\u00e9phane Brutus and Nora Baronian (Department of Management, John Molson School of Business, Concordia University), licensed under a <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/4.0\/\" rel=\"license\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License<\/a>, has been adapted from <a href=\"https:\/\/open.umn.edu\/opentextbooks\/textbooks\/71\"><em>Human Resources Management<\/em><\/a> by University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing. Changes from the original book include:\n<ul>\n \t<li>Additions of Canadian content (e.g. links, images, videos, cases)<\/li>\n \t<li>Updates of content based on the Covid-19 pandemic<\/li>\n \t<li>Major revisions to the chapters on the HR environment and Labour Relations based on the Canadian context<\/li>\n \t<li>A new chapter on HR Analytics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nOpen textbooks are open educational resources (OER), which are defined as \"teaching, learning and research materials in any medium \u2013 digital or otherwise \u2013 that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions.\u201d[footnote]UNESCO. \"Open Educational Resources (OER)\". Accessed January 1, 2020. https:\/\/en.unesco.org\/themes\/building-knowledge-societies\/oer[\/footnote]\n\nThis open textbook was developed as a part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.concordia.ca\/next-gen\/digital-strategy\/projects\/open-educational-resources.html\">Open Educational Resources Program<\/a> at Concordia University, Montreal. For more information, please contact <a href=\"mailto:oer@concordia.ca\">oer@concordia.ca<\/a>.\n","rendered":"<p>This open textbook <em>Human Resources Management &#8211; Canadian Edition<\/em>, by St\u00e9phane Brutus and Nora Baronian (Department of Management, John Molson School of Business, Concordia University), licensed under a <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/4.0\/\" rel=\"license\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License<\/a>, has been adapted from <a href=\"https:\/\/open.umn.edu\/opentextbooks\/textbooks\/71\"><em>Human Resources Management<\/em><\/a> by University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing. Changes from the original book include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Additions of Canadian content (e.g. links, images, videos, cases)<\/li>\n<li>Updates of content based on the Covid-19 pandemic<\/li>\n<li>Major revisions to the chapters on the HR environment and Labour Relations based on the Canadian context<\/li>\n<li>A new chapter on HR Analytics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Open textbooks are open educational resources (OER), which are defined as &#8220;teaching, learning and research materials in any medium \u2013 digital or otherwise \u2013 that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions.\u201d<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"UNESCO. &quot;Open Educational Resources (OER)&quot;. Accessed January 1, 2020. https:\/\/en.unesco.org\/themes\/building-knowledge-societies\/oer\" id=\"return-footnote-21-1\" href=\"#footnote-21-1\" aria-label=\"Footnote 1\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[1]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This open textbook was developed as a part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.concordia.ca\/next-gen\/digital-strategy\/projects\/open-educational-resources.html\">Open Educational Resources Program<\/a> at Concordia University, Montreal. For more information, please contact <a href=\"mailto:oer@concordia.ca\">oer@concordia.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"before-footnotes clear\" \/><div class=\"footnotes\"><ol><li id=\"footnote-21-1\">UNESCO. \"Open Educational Resources (OER)\". 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