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This up-to-the-minute manual clearly explains the technical side of drug testing as well as how workers can exercise their legal rights to decline tests or dispute results.

(Hardback)

Highlights the various sources of emotional energy unique to organizations and the discipline companies need to follow their chosen paths. This book provides guidelines for managers seeking to reshape their practices to achieve better performance from their own workforces and gain the resulting competitive edge.

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Designed to provide advice, personal coaching, background information, and guidance on the relevant topics in business. This title is suitable for managers seeking to expand skills and a professional looking to broaden knowledge base, and helps them prepare for a formal performance meeting with a direct report, and create a development plan.

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

The scale and speed of change is unprecedented in our lifetime. When the SHIFT Hits Your Plan exposes how massive change will impact the way work gets done and how organizations recruit, manage, and retain talent. The book will inspire new ideas and challenge assumptions about business and help lay out a game plan to make change work.

(Hardback)

Drawing on examples from companies including Google, Disney, IBM, and Microsoft, this title explains six business tools leaders use, and shows how HR can apply these tools to talent management. It is suitable for HR professionals seeking to sharpen their decision-making prowess.

(Hardback)

(Hardback)

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. This work serves as an indictment of how America's financial capital has swept enduring discriminatory practices under the rug.

(Paperback, First Trade Paper Edition)

Shows managers how to recognise The set-up-to-fail syndrome (SUTFS) relationships, and how to reverse them before it's too late. This book also shows how managers can stay balanced and prevent this dysfunctional set-up-to-fail dynamic from the start, triggering positive performance spirals with their employees.

(Hardback)

The question for all managers the one that separates great managers from the rest is how to get the most from your people. This book offers a five step process that leads to peak performance. It gives managers a simple framework for getting the best out of people: Selection; Connection; Play; Progress; and, Recognition.

(Hardback)

Goldsmith offers this how-to guide to prepare for a leadership transition andpresents leaders with a resource to help them through this process.

(Hardback)

Examines the talent management problem through a radical lens. Drawing from supply chain management and numerous company examples, this book presents four principles for ensuring that your organization has the skills it needs - when it needs them. It gives you the ideas and tools you'll need to match the supply of talent to your demand for it.

(Hardback)

With a culture of individual accountability and self-reliance pervading executive suites, few management groups ever function as real teams. This title offers guidelines for increasing leadership capacity at the highest executive levels. It explains how to recognize when a team effort at the management level is preferable.

(Hardback)

Do you think of your company's talent as an investment to be managed like a portfolio This book recommends that you manage your workforce like a portfolio - with disproportionate investments in the jobs that create the most wealth.

(Hardback)

(Hardback)

Reveals how HR pros can transform themselves into corporate strategists who create value not just for employees and managers, but for investors and customers as well. This book argues that HR value creation requires a deep understanding of external business realities and how value is defined by key stakeholders both inside and outside the company.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

In The Token: Common Sense Ideas for Creating Diversity in Your Organization, your new token Black friend, Crystal Byrd Farmer, acts as the bridge between majority white organizations that are dedicated to social justice and affirmative action and the diverse people in community they want to recruit.

(Hardback)

Argues that winning the war for leadership talent is about much more than frenzied recruiting tactics. This book describes how to create a winning employee value proposition that makes a company attractive to talent, and move beyond recruiting hype to build a long-term recruiting strategy.

(Hardback)

In a marketplace fueled by intangible assets, anything less than optimal workforce success can threaten a firm's survival. This work shows how to create a "Workforce Scorecard" that identifies and measures the behaviors, competencies, mind-set, and culture required for workforce success and reveals how each dimension impacts the bottom line.

(Hardback)

Why is it so hard to get teams to perform to their potential Why does conflict happen even when intentions are aligned - and is that conflict harmful, or can it actually help the group dynamic This book explores the social and psychological research to reveal counterintuitive lessons about teams.

(Hardback)

Top Talent: Keeping Your Best People When You Need Them

(Paperback)

Argues that the way an organization responds to pain determines whether it remains toxic or becomes generative, whether it endures as a debilitating poison or is transformed into a force for healthy organizations. This book argues that when ignored, toxic emotions betray employees' hopes, bruise their egos, and reduce their enthusiasm for work.

(Paperback)

Every company has talented employees. But the best managers understand that having the right people in the right positions doesn't just happen it requires careful management and talent development. This collection of first-hand accounts gives you insight into how some of the world's top business leaders invested in human capital.