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…
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)
The Human Resources Scorecard: measuring the return on investment is the first book to provide a comprehensive, step-by-step process for measuring return on investment in human resources programs. Based on the classic ROI definition of earnings divided by investment, the ROI Process developed 20 years ago by co-author Jack J Phillips aids managers in determining and improving the bottom-line im…
It is often said that the only true source of sustained competitive advantage is people. But what does that mean and how can this be measured and managed? How many organizations know whether their human capital outperforms their competitors', or even whether it improves year-over-year? And what is the strategy for continually improving that performance?The "New Human Capital Strategy" is a road…
Contents: 1. Managing Human Resources Part 1. The Human Resource Environment 2. Trends In Human Resource Management 3. Providing Equal Employement Opportunity And A Safe Workplace 4. Analyzing Work And Designing Jobs Part 2. Acquiring And Preparing Human Resources 5. Planning For And Recruiting Human Resources 6. Selecting Employees And Placing Them In Jobs 7. Training Employees …
Phelan dissects a whole range of consulting treatments for unhealthy companies and shows why theyÂ’re essentially fad diets: superficial would-be fixes that donÂ’t result in lasting improvements and can cause serious damage. With a mix of clear-eyed business analysis, heart-wrenching stories, and hard-won lessons for both consultants and the people who hire them, this book is impossible t…
Founded in the early 1980s, SSA is a general, retained search firm with exclusive allegiance to client organizations, affiliated with a network of powerful international resources and has a division devoted to corporate boards, helping companies, public and private, small and large, structure, strengthen, diversify and benchmark their statutory and advisory boards. Board of directors can spe…