In response to increasing activism focusing on relations between shareholders and corporate managements (witness the protests at the 1999 Seattle meeting of the World Trade Organization), the literature on corporate governance is expanding. Eleven contributed papers examine the policy implications of such issues for the efficiency of firms and international financial marketsespecially the US, t…
For undergraduate and graduate-level courses in leadership. An exploration of what makes an effective leader Leadership in Organizations, 9th Edition provides a balance of theory and practice as it covers the major theories and research on leadership and managerial effectiveness in formal organisations. Rather than detailing an endless series of studies or prescribing exactly how leaders must o…
In this often unexamined story of the new American work ethic and why the U.S. will remain a future global force, Partnership HR demonstrates the innate ability of today's workforce to do whatever it takes to catch up, keep up, and get ahead. Author Irving Buchen challenges organizational leaders and human resource professionals alike to make changes in traditional HR functions as he documents …
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…
Mayo (human capital management, Middlesex U.) exhorts companies to consider their workers as assets to be cultivated, protected, and used to their fullest extent for the benefit of the business. Acknowledgments Preface 1 A Great Gap to be Filled 1 2 People Drive Value 18 3 Measuring Human Capital 40 4 The Worth of People as Assets 71 5 Capability and Potential 88 6 Maximi…