This book gives senior managers and HR practitioners the insight and tools they need to transform the human resources function from a transaction-based commodity service to consultant and strategic partner: presents the views of senior executives on how external pressures are causing internal changes to the business and what the implications are for HR; explains how and why the role of HR is c…
A worker in one of Europe's largest wireless communication companies showed his manager how to repair an error that was costing the company $30 million per year. A secretary at Grapevine Canyon Ranch proposed a simple change to pull the company's website to the top of search engines. These are just two of many examples in Ideas are Free that highlight the single best resource in a company - tho…
Cummings/Worley's ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE, 12th Edition, is the most widely-used textbook in the field. It blends rigor and relevance in a comprehensive and clear presentation. The authors work from a strong evidence-based foundation to describe, in practical terms, how behavioral science knowledge can be used to help organizations develop strategies, structures and processes for su…
Flaherty (management, Pace U.) synthesizes and analyzes the work of management and business writer Drucker. The account explores three main themes: the formation of Drucker's theory culminating in the 1954 publication of , Drucker's views on strategy and entrepreneurship, and multiple perspectives on executive effectiveness. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
This book captures Drucker's visionary management concepts, applies them to the key business risks and oppotunities of the coming decades, and imparts Drucker's vies on current business practices, economic changes, and trends--many of which he first predicted decades ago. Drucker’s insights are devided into five main themes that the modern organization needs to, as Drucker would say, create …
Following in the successful vein of Managing for the Future (1992) and Managing in a Time of Great Change (1995), the incomparable Peter Drucker is back with fresh thoughts, insights, and knowledge about the ever-changing business society around us and the ever-expanding management roles required of us all-chiefs, executives, managers, and knowledge workers alike. Two main themes are explore…