Personnel and human resources management Books

Like a jar of rich, slow-simmered tomato paste-made with a time-tested system refined over generations - true business growth isn't just about working harder or scaling fast. The best results come from a foundation of values, wisdom, and continuous...

"Path to Employee Happiness: From Vision to Reality" by Marc Zirka is a thought-provoking guide that challenges conventional HR practices and reimagines the workplace as a space where employees are valued as contributors, not just resources. With...

Leadership Secrets is not your typical leadership book. It doesn't hand you theories-it gives you tools. Through unforgettable stories, practical strategies, and a fresh, authentic voice, Shawn Trautman reveals what separates forgettable managers...

For decades, companies have invested billions in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives-yet the results have fallen short. Why? Because diversity alone doesn't drive innovation or performance. It takes intentional leadership development,...

This book offers an exploration of the continuous training of individuals, a subject crucial to business competitiveness and societal progress in today's rapidly changing world. It examines how lifelong learning helps workers adapt their skills to meet...

Agility, sustainability, and business value have become crucial in the ever-changing world of modern business. This book investigates how these can work harmoniously and create value for businesses.

What happens when we don't stand for ourselves - or up for ourselves?We feel overextended, overlooked and overwhelmed.In fast-paced, high-pressure environments like STEM, the demands are relentless and the expectations, often unspoken, are steep. For...

We have never had more freedom to acquire information to make decisions, and organizations have never been so pressed to demonstrate accountability as they communicate with better informed customers and users. People who work IN an organization must also...

The development of technical leadership capabilities is often overlooked as a training requirement in organisations but these are key to business success.In this book five management techniques to help you develop your leadership capabilities and build a...

Careers without Borders analyzes the challenges, debates and developments in global careers using a critical management perspective. In this edited collection, contributors from around the world offer strong theoretical analyses, and practical...

Chapter authors have been drawn from across five continents and eleven countries to provide ground-breaking research in wellbeing from different regional perspectives, looking at both developed and developing world scenarios.

Engaging in ongoing, continuing professional development (CPD) is a strategic imperative for the health informatics professional. In our global economy, healthcare is fast-paced, dynamic, and ever-changing. While this rapid change is both exciting and...

Dieses Buch fasst Ergebnisse einer umfangreichen Studie zusammen und beantwortet folgende Fragen:Was kann als belastende Situation erlebt werden?Was genau bedeutet „Stress" in diesem Zusammenhang?Und was sind hilfreiche Unterstützungsangebote?Was ist ein...

Tony Cooke is no ordinary director of a world-renowned sports brand-just ask anyone who has worked with him across the UK or France or Holland or Spain or Sweden or Germany!A great innovator, he has inspired and motivated countless people while roguishly...

In a world that constantly pulls you in a hundred different directions-career, success, status, the next big thing-how do you even know if the life you're living is actually yours?We chase what we've been told will make us happy, but here's the truth:...

In recent years, the American workforce has seen an influx of international laborers hoping to expand their opportunities or build a new life in the land of the free. Immigration law can be tricky to navigate, especially when facing different terms and...

People Powered by AI: A Playbook for HR Leaders Ready to Shape the New World of Work was written for HR professionals, people leaders, and business executives who want to take the lead (not play catch-up), this book is a candid and empowering guide to...

Cybersecurity LeadershipCybersecurity isn't just an IT issue-it's a business imperative. If you lead a small or mid-sized business, cybersecurity decisions are on your plate-whether you have a technical background or not.Cybersecurity Leadership is...

We've all been there. We are in a working group or at a meeting, discussing a topic or a challenge, and all the while, as a separate track running underneath our conversation, there is a subtext that no one explicitly addresses.

In the Two Factor Theory of Customer Service, author David L. Elwood nudges the entire field of customer service toward becoming a professional discipline. Customer service is not a casual, do-it-if-you-think-of-it aspect of business; customer service is...

Millions of employees attend some type of training or learning event during their tenure. Unfortunately, only 10 to 30 percent of what they learn will actually be applied in their work, presenting a situation referred to as a learning transfer problem...

This is a great tool for sponsors to share with your new recruits. It is a quick short guide for people involved in the direct selling business, whether they are newly involved or as a refresher for the ones doing it. This book teaches street-smart...

"From Coach to Author: How to Successfully Market Your Ebook" is a comprehensive guide for coaches looking to market and promote their ebooks effectively. The book provides an overview of the ebook market and the techniques that can be used to...

Debate about organization and workplace learning has now moved on from viewing learning as a way of fostering control, to paving the way for viewing learning, working and living in the context of organizational complexity. The book suggests that by...

The maritime car carrier industry has been entirely neglected by social scientists. This book examines globalization changes in cost structure and dynamics; in ownership, freight, labour and other markets; in technological innovation and ship design; and...

This book presents new and authoritative evidence about change at the workplace, using it to cast light on recent debates about the future of work. The basic questions it poses are whether, and how, British workplaces are responding to the challenge of...

Job migration across international boundaries and jobless economic "recoveries" are the latest disruptions in the workplace's human equation. To help policy makers, employers and employees to address these issues, Divanna and Rogers propose a more...

This book analyzes the multiple levels of meaning which people attach to work today, and the role of work in people's lives. By looking at call centres and software development, the book evaluates some of the claims made for the knowledge economy and...

The contribution of a good non-Executive Director can make a huge difference to a small to medium sized business. But who should fulfil the role? Someone steeped in the culture and methods of a large corporation may not be able to make a valuable...

In this book, the authors bring together the extant research evidence on occupational violence and bullying, estimate the costs to organizations and the community at large, examine the overlaps between manifestation in the broader community and the...

Increased longevity and better health are changing the nature of family life. In the context of changes in the world of work, increased divorce and a declining welfare state, multi-generation or 'beanpole families' are a potential resource for family...

The promotion of workplace partnership in the high performance workplace has become central to policy debates on the 'modernization' of employment relations in British industry. This book provides critical insights into the dynamics of partnership by way...

The automobile sector is one of the most archetypal global industries and is seen by many as one of the main drivers behind the homogenisation of world markets due to firms' internationalization strategies and the social practices that firms impose. This...

The Indian software industry has rapidly grown over the past decade, most of this growth has been derived from exports to the US market. This book deals with business models, particularly as the way that the software model in India has evolved is unique...

This book is an important and original account of life in the new lean production workplace - the car industry where it all began. It brings together the two emblematic features of the twentieth century: a working class meant to topple the social order,...

Mobile communications are about to enter the third stage in their development, widely known as 3G. This will bring always-on internet access to mobile devices. This book investigates the history of mobile communications and explores the technological...

This book enables the reader to understand labour markets and shows how to forecast the need for skills in developing countries. The forecasting of these skills has recently fallen into disrepute with the notion that all forecasting techniques that...

This book highlights the role that national culture plays in shaping the emergent relationship between IT and organisations. It also shows the mechanisms through which national culture influences IT use. Although a number of studies have investigated...

 The case studies in Rethinking Interviewing and Personnel Selection find support for Herriot (1993, 2003) and Fletcher's (1997, 2003) claims that the selection interview is a social process which may gain from a degree of semi-structured...

Lean Human Resources addresses a critical issue facing organisations undertaking lean transformation or attempting to create a lean culture of continuous improvement. People are the single biggest factor necessary to ensure success, but it is common for...

How has the recession affected the conduct of human resource management? How have HR departments and managers fared? Have leading firms taken measures to sustain and revive their businesses through innovative HR measures? How have union representation...

As our world evolves into a more technically inclined environment, it has become more imperative to understand technology and how it works.This book was developed to encourage and provide the confidence of someone who is interested in transitioning their...

The Employability Market Orientation (EMO) model, which is more extensive than traditional approaches in the field of personal marketing, along with a questionnaire for its measurement, makes the employee "anti-fragile" behaving as a micro-entrepreneur...