Human Resources Personnel Management category: 10238 books

Summary of Drive by Daniel Pink | Includes Analysis   Preview: Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (2011) is a book about human motivations. Many of the prevailing ideas about why humans make decisions and operate the way they do aren’t true or, at least, they...

Why downsize when you can OPTIMIZE? "At McDonald’s our focus has always been on providing maximum value to customers through ‘optimal’ quality and tight cost management, which is why Optimization has become such a pivotal concept for us. Steve Sashihara’s book brings the concept...

Management 25 Strategies to Manage Teams, Lead Effectively, and Build Trust In Your Teams Team management is not as easy as it may seem, but it could easily become. Some people say that you are either born as a leader or as a follower, but we say that anyone can be a great leader and learn how to...

Radical Advice for Reinventing Talent--and HR Most executives today recognize the competitive advantage of human capital, and yet the talent practices their organizations use are stuck in the twentieth century. Typical talent-planning and HR processes are designed for predictable environments,...

From the podcast to the page, Lorenzo Flores—co-creator and co-host of the instant success Hacking Your Leadership—finally shares the philosophy that's made him an authority in retail leadership and management.  Vision, Clarity, Support: A Leadership Crash Course on the Three Pillars of...

Re-authoring the World: The Narrative Lens and Practices for Organisations, Communities and Individuals, invites readers to a transformational way of being in the world. It translates the Narrative Therapy approach and practices for people outside the therapeutic context that are interested in shifting...

Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Business economics - Personnel and Organisation, , language: English, abstract: 'All of our insights start with a feeling.' (da Vinci) To analyse and reflect our decision making process continuously is one of the advices, which Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman...

New rules require a new game plan. More than 80% of today's workforce comprises knowledge-and service-based workers, rendering obsolete the conventional understanding of organizational performance. New work roles require new managerial skills and methods. This innovative book shows how 'new human...

Documenting how employment branding can save money by attracting talented, capable associates that complement their organizations, this reference underscores the importance of any company having clearly defined values. Addressing how individuals no longer wish to compartmentalize their lives or separate...

Strategic Financial Planning for the Public Sector is one of a series of books entitled “Essential Skills for the Public Sector”. It promotes the importance of strategic financial planning and how this can have a dramatic impact on financial monitoring and control, as well as assisting the organisation...

Whether creating a new system or filling in the gaps in an established business, this resource acts as a practical tool for dealing with compensation in the workplace. Linking pay and performance, this guidebook demonstrates how to improve a salary administration program and includes facts sheets,...

Well-researched and with practical applications, this manual shows the importance of understanding an organization’s business strategy, goals, and competitive environment to identify what talents the firm will need. The combination of strategic forecasting and labor-market planning outlined in this...

Let’s face it — who among us has only a single project? Multiple projects are the norm, not the exception, and there are very good reasons why this is so. A lot of projects simply aren’t big enough to justify the investment of a full-time project manager: having only one is impractical. Depending...

In Compensation and Benefit Design , Bashker D. Biswas shows exactly how to bring financial rigor to the crucial "people" decisions associated with compensation and benefit program development. This comprehensive book begins by introducing a valuable Human Resource Life Cycle Model for considering...