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A practical guide for managers for implementing effective performance management systems in the workplace.

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This simple, easy-to-use book gives managers, supervisors, and team leaders activities to help their teams overcome emotional obstacles and become more effective. This practical, effective collection of proven exercises will elicit the best from any team.

(Hardback)

As most managers know, you need a vision to motivate employees to achieve goals. Called Grounded Visioning, and based on a concept called appreciative inquiry, the process allows groups to come up with a revitalizing vision that everyone buys into in half a day or less.

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Techniques described in the book can help any company enhance its ability to recruit, retain and improve its employee relations.

A synthesis of effective recruiting techniques is explained including a review of Merck's Interview Skills workshop, Hewlett-Packard's Behavioral Interviewing and Marriott's recruitment programs.

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Reports the results of a study examining empirically the use of a self-management training programme to increase employee attendance. It describes how this training process can be of value in reducing employee absenteeism and addresses other applications of self-management in the workplace.

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Five appendixes provide additional information including a guide to hiring and keeping good employees, a study of employee theft by Virginia's Crime Prevention Manual Task Force, an examination of what motivates employees, an internal controls checklist, and a list of dos and don'ts in dealing with employee theft.

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(Hardback)

Examines the management technique of job redesign. The authors discuss the attempts of four companies to diffuse job redesign throughout their organizations and the reasons for their success or failure. The steps taken by personnel to facilitate the diffusion are also included.

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Rocked by a flurry of high-profile sex discrimination lawsuits in the 1990s, Wall Street was supposed to have cleaned up its act. It hasn't. Selling Women Short is a powerful new indictment of how America's financial capital has swept enduring discriminatory practices under the rug. Wall Street is supposed to be a citadel of pure economics, paying

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This book provides an overview of the smoking controversy. In a book that is as provocative as it is balanced and authoritative, the authors explore the background of the current smoking controversy that has led to heightened awareness of the dangers of smoking to both smokers and nonsmokers alike.

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Jaques argues that the problems inherent in the way management is practiced are attributable to gravely dysfunctional systems of managerial leadership, systems that have evolved over the years and are now, despite their ineffectualities, taken for granted.

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Economic developments, social and political pressures for job maintenance, the characteristics of the labor market, and the costs of turnover have combined uniquely to compel employers, in their own interests and in the interests of society, to build and preserve a competent and stable workforce.

(Paperback, 3rd Revised edition)

It includes a number of human resources topics not usually covered in one volumeHR planning, legal aspects of staffing, recruiting, selecting, performance appraisal, career development, and many othersin an integrated system.

(Hardback, 3rd Revised edition)

It includes a number of human resources topics not usually covered in one volumeHR planning, legal aspects of staffing, recruiting, selecting, performance appraisal, career development, and many othersin an integrated system.

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A practical, intelligent, easily used way to ask the right questions to get the answers you need in a face to face job interview - increasing your odds of choosing the right candidate.

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The definitive resource for linking HRD to corporate strategy, performance, and growth

(Hardback, 5th edition)

Revised edition of the authors' Strategy and human resource management, 2016.

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The contributors to this volume address current issues and problems in the field of stress management and provide guidance toward the development, implementation, evaluation, and maintenance of stress management programs in work settings.

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The step-by-step guide to the most pressing management problem of our time, by the coauthor of the bestseller The Wisdom of Teams.

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They're relying on reduced HR departments and in-house managers and staff to make critical staffing decisions. In particular, Talent Balancing will help entrepreneurs and managers without formal recruitment training navigate organizational politics, analyze current and future staffing needs, and execute a successful plan.

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Are you seeking the perfect mentor or life adviser-an ideal guide, no matter what the challenge This book provides a unique and new road map for a modern world, demonstrating that the wisdom we seek surrounds us at every turn.

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Teams have evolved into an important structure in business today--and are now needed more than ever. An insightful collection of activities, Team Workout provides facilitators, trainers, leaders, and managers with a wide variety of tools to increase team effectiveness and upgrade skills and knowledge within todays challenging organizational environment.