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Once thought of simply as the place where employee records are kept, today's human resources department has evolved into a manager of human capital. However, HR faces challenges -- among them providing necessary services at competitive cost, enhancing productivity, and justifying budgets at a time when outsourcing firms threaten its very existence. Now more than ever, HR needs to position itself as a value-added partner that contributes to the strategic...
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"With no prior knowledge of Spanish, and this book at your fingertips, you can confidently conduct patient medical history interviews, perform physical examinations, and give medical instructions to Spanish-speaking patients." "Carefully constructed to elicit one-word, "yes or no" answers, Medical Spanish empowers you to get, and give, the information you need, without struggling to understand an unfamiliar language or risking errors due to miscommunication."--BOOK...
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"Moving beyond industrial-age notions of work, Competency-Based Human Resource Management describes how to reinvent the HR department so that job competencies - rather than job descriptions - become the foundation for all HR efforts. By isolating and focusing on the key competencies that distinguish top performers, HR departments can unleash the power of exemplary performers across all job categories and see significant gains in productivity." "This...
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"This book briefly summarizes the current research in the area of employee turnover and provides guidelines to implement proven strategies for reducing it. This comprehensive text devotes separate chapters to reducing turnover among special groups, such as minorities and women, and to using employee surveys to predict, diagnose, and reduce turnover. In addition, two sample employee surveys are included in the appendix. Hands-on interventions are described...
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Peter Wallbridge explains the life cycle of employees from recruitment to exit. He breaks down the functions of the human resources department which include; advertising and marketing the company brand, recruiting new employees, hiring, planning for training and development, managing performance, knowing local and state laws, following policy for terminations, managing change, and remuneration.
12) Talent flow: a strategic approach to keeping good employees, helping them grow, and letting them go
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This title shows how to create an employee retention strategy, analyze aspects of job performance, identify employees with level of performance and develop strategies tailored to each group plan and implement layoffs and reductions in workforce.
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Chris Gardner is an intelligent, energetic guy who can't catch a break. In the sluggish Bay Area economy of 1981, he's losing ground, by investing all his family's money in high cost bone-density scanners. His wife leaves him, he loses his apartment, and with his 5-year-old son in tow joins the ranks of the homeless, if not the hopeless. Bounced from shelter to shelter, he finds himself a single dad who has to support and care for a young child. Impressing...
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"Updated to reflect the latest developments in the field, UNDERSTANDING HUMAN BEHAVIOR, 9e, delivers reliable, practical information students need to gain a solid understanding of basic psychological concepts from a health care perspective. In addition to its signature need-to-know presentation and easy-to-read writing style, the ninth edition is more streamlined and now includes full-color illustrations. Its concise yet thorough coverage spans a...
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Competition among employers is fierce with many companies arguing that they have the best opportunities. The labor market has become a seller's market, with workers able to make their own choices about where they will work, how diligently they'll work and when they'll leave. "Employer of Choice" defines, clarifies and differentiates the term, concept and what really constitutes an Employer of Choice. This book is ground breaking, establishing a new...
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"Not since Benjamin Franklin penned Poor Richard's Almanac has the world seen a more avid, committed, and talented aphorist than Frank McNair. And it's never seen one who looks so sharply and wittily at the world of work. Now, McNair crystallizes the complex tasks of people management into 119 practical, memorable maxims that you can put to instant use - or store away to meet future challenges."--Jacket.
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