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Successful succession planning provides strength and stability to an organization, aids staff retention, and prepares for future growth and change. In this program, Ann Sherry discusses the purpose and process of succession planning. She highlights some of the pitfalls of succession planning and discusses ways to implement a robust process that ensures the development and movement of staff in the right direction. Topics include: the importance of...

"In tracing and analyzing the experiences of nineteen new managers, Linda Hill reveals the profound complexity and difficulty of the process of developing into a manager. In their own distinct voices, these managers describe how they reframed their understanding of their roles and responsibilities and how they coped with the stresses and emotions of the transformation - in essence, how they were able to take on a new identity. Now, in an expanded...

"In Aligning Pay and Results, fourteen compensation experts provide answers, techniques, and insights on the complex issues involved in incentive- and performance-based pay programs. With the practical help this book provides (in both the human and technical arenas), you'll have a good start toward creating a pay environment that energizes employees, encourages innovation, and fuels growth for years to come."--Jacket.

Headhunters--third-party agents paid a fee by companies for locating job candidates--perform a unique sales role. The product they sell is people, matching candidates with jobs and companies with candidates. Headhunters affect the professional lives of thousands of employees every day, and their work has a profound, though hidden, effect on the employment picture in the United States. William Finlay and James E. Coverdill draw on interviews with and...

Provides practical tools to help companies establish, revitalise, or revise succession planning and management programmes. Includes a quick start guide to help with immediate implementation, as well as a CD-Rom containing assessments, checklists, and customisable guides.

The author uses his research on the Fortune 500 to create a blueprint for turning good companies into spectacular ones.

What makes an academic leader effective? How can the myths surrounding academic leadership induce college presidents to make poor judgments? Can a college president really make a difference in whether an institution is successful in achieving its goals? In this book, Robert Birnbaum reveals the complex factors that influence the real and perceived effectiveness of academic leaders. Drawing on the results of a five-year longitudinal study by the Institutional...

Specific examples of business successes and failures serve to illustrate the essential practices of effective administration. The measure of the executive, Peter Drucker reminds us, is the ability to "get the right things done." This usually involves doing what other people have overlooked as well as avoiding what is unproductive. Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge may all be wasted in an executive job without the acquired habits of mind that...

The most trusted resource on becoming a leader is now updated and revised for a new generation. This leadership classic continues to be a bestseller after three editions and twenty years in print. It is the gold standard for research-based leadership, and the premier resource on becoming a leader. This new edition, with streamlined text, more international and business examples, and a graphic redesign, is more readable and accessible than ever before....