Demonstrating how HR practitioners can work across the organization to change the shape and structure in order to improve performance, this title provides tools and techniques that HR professionals need to fulfill their emerging role as business partners. View More...
Management consultant Chopra explains a method for overcoming people's resistance to learning new ideas because doing it the old way is easier than learning the new. His system is based on insights about how the mind makes ideas, how people behave in groups, and how important people's ideas are to t View More...
In My Job My Self, Gini plumbs a wide range of statistics, interviews with workers, surveys from employers and employees, and his own experiences and memories, to explore why we work, how our work affects us, and what we will become as a nation of workers. My Job, My Self speaks to every employed person who has yet to understand the costs and challenges of a lifetime of labor. View More...
Everyone gets nervous about interviewing. You want to make sure you're putting out the right signals to potential employers, while still getting the information about a potential job that you need as well. Learn to navigate the murky waters of internet interviewing; negotiate for the salary that you deserve and confidently answer the common - and not so common - interview questions. View More...
The day of the automatic merit pay rise and cost-of-living increase is over. Today's focus is on performance-based approaches to compensation and benefits that will effectively support the present and future requirements of the corporation. View More...
Return on Investment (ROI) remains one of the most challenging and intriguing issues facing human resource development and performance improvement professionals. Drawing on their expertise in developing and implementing ROI programs in human performance and training, Jack J. Phillips, Ph.D., Timothy W. Bothell and G. Lynn Snead demonstrate how you can effectively apply ROI to project management.Today, almost every industry requires employees to manage multiple projects with competing priorities, critical deadlines, and unexpected interruptions--rendering everyone a project manager in some resp... View More...
To create a learning organization, learning must be integrated as a regular part of the job. Written for managers on all levels, this book explores what is takes to become a learning organization, using case studies to demonstrate why learning is important and how to achieve on-going learning success. The individual's learning responsibility is also discussed, including attitudes to learning, stages, and risk taking. View More...
If you want to create a lean, mean, working machine in today's environment you need a game plan for building employee morale and commitment. By coaching and mentoring your work force--instead of implementing staid traditional management techniques--you'll start to see tremendous results. Regardless of where you find yourself on the corporate ladder and what level of authority you carry, what you and other managers share in common is the responsibility for the performance of others. Coaching and Mentoring For Dummies can open your eyes to this innovative way of managing and show you the best wa... View More...
A treasury of activities, ideas, and resources, The Complete Guide to Service Learning can help teachers and youth workers engage young hearts and minds in reaching out and giving back. Author, and internationally known service learning expert, Cathryn Berger Kaye presents service learning--its importance, steps, essential elements, and challenges--within a curricular context. View More...
Executives today recognize that their firms face a wave of retirements over the next decade as the baby boomers hit retirement age. At the other end of the talent pipeline, the younger workforce is developing a different set of values and expectations, which creates new recruiting and employee retention issues. The evolution from an older, traditional, highly-experienced workforce to a younger, more mobile, employee base poses significant challenges, particularly when considered in the context of the long-term orientation towards downsizing and cost cutting. This is a solution-oriented book to... View More...
Written by the consultants who were there every step of the way, Big Change at Best Buy reveals the secrets of how the once-sprawling entrepreneurial maverick transformed into North America's No 1 specialty retailer - converting supercompetitive individualists into collaborative systems thinkers. View More...
A guide to hiring and firing without being hit by a hefty lawsuit. This book contains 100 commonly asked questions on human resource hiring and firing. The questions range from the basic to the sophisitcated, including: does my company need an affirmative action plan?; why should I conduct an exit interview?; how do I find the best Web sites for recruitment?; how do I protect my company from negligent hiring claims?; and how do I terminate a long-term employee with a history of positive performance evaluations? Each question is followed by a short answer and the Tell Me More section provides l... View More...
Addressing the rising age of the average American worker, an analysis of a potential problem advises corporations to keep disillusioned workers on the job longer. View More...
