Human Resources category: 10245 books
by David Cooperider, Danielle Zandee, Lindsey N. Godwin
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Appreciative Inquiry has touched and inspired the work of thousands who apply its development principles in a wide range of settings including industry, government, spiritual and not-for-profit organizations. The Advances in Appreciative Inquiry series facilitates an emergent dialogue within the social...
Experimental Econophysics
Properties and Mechanisms of Laboratory Markets
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Experimental Econophysics describes the method of controlled human experiments, which is developed by physicists to study some problems in economics or finance, namely, stylized facts, fluctuation phenomena, herd behavior, contrarian behavior,
hedge behavior, cooperation, business cycles, partial...
Promoting Skill Transfer for Human Capacity Development in Papua New Guinea
The Role of Externally Financed Infrastructure Projects
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Pacific countries lack workers with construction skills and rely on large firms to import skilled workers for large infrastructure projects. In Papua New Guinea (PNG), for example, the working-age population is estimated to grow by 2.2 million people between 2014 and 2030. The country faces a growing...
Human Resource Management in Project-Based Organizations
The HR Quadriad Framework
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2011
Presenting findings from research into Sweden's leading multinationals this book focuses on engineering companies operating in global industries such as pharmaceutical, aerospace, packing systems and automotive. It explores research and practice within the area of HRM focusing on project-based organizations.
by John Onche Shaibu
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2018
Owing to a myriad of reasons, it is becoming increasingly difficult to go through one day without coming in contact with at least one man or woman who lashes out at us with obvious frustrations and negative energy oozing out of their being. Dozens of people are broken on account of the economic situation,...
Challenges of Active Ageing
Equality Law and the Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2016
This edited collection takes a multi-disciplinary approach to the ‘Active Ageing’ agenda to enable readers to consider the implications of this phenomenon for the law, the workplace, and for working lives from a holistic perspective. Challenges of Active Ageing brings together academics working...
Managing Organizational Change (RLE: Organizations)
Human Factors and Automation
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
The United States Internal Revenue Service introduced a multi-million dollar program to automate its operations in the early 1980s. This book describes a multidisciplinary study of the experiences of several thousand users in this program, based primarily on questionnaires, observation and interviews....
Managing Knowledge Workers:
New Skills and Attitudes to Unlock the Intellectual Capital in Your Organization
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Managing Knowledge Workers provides practical, doable strategies for managing, motivating, and retaining knowledge workers, without breaking the bank. Managing Knowledge Workers focuses not just on understanding the value of knowledge in your organization, but on managing the human side of intellectual...
An Inconvenient Whistleblower
A Survival Guide for Toxic Workplaces
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
There are many ways of crushing the human spirit: few in the workplace know this better than aggressively targeted employees. The National Standard of Canada is an important risk-mitigation tool for ensuring all workplaces are psychologically healthy and safe. About five percent of Canadian employees...
Honours versus Money
The Economics of Awards
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Honours fulfil one of the most fundamental desires of human beings, namely, to be recognised and held in esteem by others. There are thousands of awards in all areas of society: the state, arts and media, sports, religion, the voluntary sector, academia, and business. Awards are well visible, can...
Monkey Business
37 Better Business Practices Learned Through Monkeys
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Author Heather A. Wandell, after observing thousands of hours of human workplace behavior and hundreds of hours of monkey behavior, discovered there is a connection! In Monkey Business, she compares the monkeys behavior to the human behavior and offers unique business and personal life practices to...
Policy and Practice in European Human Resource Management
The Price Waterhouse Cranfield Survey
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
This volume, first published in 1994, lays out and considers the evidence of trends in HRM in a variety of areas: overall strategy, the role and education of HR professionals, recruitment, training and development, pay, industrial relations, communication, flexibility, equal opportunities and EC social...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
This international collection examines violence and abuse in and around organisations. The collection documents the causes, specifically from the perspective of human relations and of the workplace conditions. It also highlights the specific risks associated with high-risk professions or working environments.
The...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Gender Equality in a Global Perspective looks to discuss whether Gender Equality can be adopted as it has been defined in international documents anywhere, or whether it needs to be adapted in a more local context; discuss which factors and perspectives need to be taken into account when adapting...