Finally, a publisher has taken the direct approach to answering the most frequently asked questions about specific management dilemmas by creating a nuts-and-bolts book that aims directly at making a manager's tasks easier. By formatting the most pertinent lessons from today's leading authorities into easy-to-use guides, AMACOM has created a system through which inquisitive managers can master …
What makes some businesses more successful than others? The answer: people. Organizations with motivated, talented employees that offer outstanding customer service are more likely to pull ahead of the competition. Performance Management is the first text to emphasize this key competitive advantage, showing readers that success in todayÂ’s globalized business world can be found, not in techn…
The Art and Science of 360? Feedback is the first and only single-volume guide to all the hows and whys of 360? feedback. It contains case studies and examples of major companies that have successfully implemented 360? feedback into their organizations. You'll learn the process for enlisting the support of and comittment to 360? feedback from others in your organization--a key ingredient for su…
Performance Management, Fifth Edition covers the design and implementation of effective and successful performance management systems―the key tools that can be used to transform employee talent and motivation into a strategic business advantage. Author Herman Aguinis focuses on research-based findings and up-to-date applications that consider the changing nature of work and organizations.
It shows you how to take action. It teaches you a simple six step discipline to make the most of your strengths and neutralize your weaknesses, and how you can stick to this discipline despite the pressures of a company, a boss, or even a spouse pulling you off your strengths path. There are six chapters in the book. Six steps. So, what you have in this book is a six week, six step discipli…
Many companies now recognize that learning through training, development, and knowledge management helps employees strengthen or increase their skills in order to improve or make new products, generate new and innovative ideas, and provide high-quality customer service. Thus, an emphasis on learning through training, development, and knowledge management is no longer in the catego…
Brannick and Levine provide students and professionals in management and I/O psychology with the methods and applications of job analysis. Job analysis covers a host of activities, all directed toward discovering, understanding, and describing what people do at work. It thus forms the basis for the solution of virtually every human resource problem. The authors describe several job analysis met…
A critical guide to the key principles, methods, implications and benefits of competence-based techniques and vocational qualifications, both in the UK and elsewhere. The author both examines the purpose and use of the different competence-based systems and gives practical tips on implementation. (text from the publisher)
This book is designed to bring today's managers and professionals the fundamental information they need to stay competitive in a fast-moving world. From the preeminent thinkers whose work has defined an entire field to the rising stars who will redefine the way we think about business, here are the leading minds and landmark ideas that have established the Harvard Business Review as required re…
If talent is the leading indicator of whether a business is up or down, a success or a failure (and it is) . . . do you know how to accurately judge raw human talent? Understand a person's unique combination of traits? Develop that talent? Convert what supposedly are "soft" subjective judgments about people into objective criteria that are as specific, verifiable, and concrete as the contents o…