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Some movers and shakers seem to be natural leaders, but that's exactly what they want you to think. The truth is, leaders are made, not born. Leadership For Dummies is for anyone with the desire to take the lead. Knowing how to lead is a vital skill that we should all develop as early as possible. This book shows you how to add leadership skills to your arsenal of personal traits and explains how doing so helps you to achieve more happiness and contentment...

'The Routledge Companion to Strategic Human Resource Management' is a prestige reference work offering a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the field. It surveys the state of the discipline and introduces and makes sense of new cutting edge themes.

"Douglas McGregor, Revisited emphasizes McGregor's lasting influence and updates his thinking with new concepts, fresh strategies, and modern implementation. This timely work traces McGregor's original thinking, which has emerged in current approaches that stress distributed leadership, open-minded appraisal techniques, and employee/customer commitment." "Highlighted throughout with gems of wisdom in McGregor's own words, the book describes the value...

"The ROI of Human Capital draws on years of quantitative and qualitative international research by the Saratoga Institute to provide a methodology for measuring the bottom-line effect of employee performance. Its author, Institute founder Jac Fitz-enz, virtually invented human performance benchmarking - a concept that demands to be understood as businesses face a long-range shortage of qualified workers at all levels." "Applying a blend of management...

"Blowing up the prevailing wisdom that companies must chase and acquire top talent in order to remain successful, Hidden Value argues instead that the source of sustained competitive advantage already exists within every organization. O'Reilly and Pfeffer, leading experts on organizational behavior and human resources, argue that how a firm creates and uses talent is far more important than how the firm attracts talent."--Jacket.

You've got the best employees available - all hand-picked for their knowledge, skills, and creativity. But do you know how to make the most of them? Do you know how to leverage this wealth of human capital - and make your people your most powerful competitive tool? Find out in Beyond Productivity. Based on the authors' extensive research, this book demonstrates how leading firms have designed their infrastructures to leverage both organizational knowledge...

This collection is a mix of timeless classics and new theories on how to think about and promote equality in the workplace.

"This book builds on new institutionalist theory in both economics and political science to offer a general political economy framework for the study of welfare capitalism. Based on the key idea that social protection in a modern economy, both inside and outside the state, can be understood as protection of specific investments in human capital, the book offers a systematic explanation of popular preferences for redistributive spending, the economic...

In recent years, by following media coverage of many scandals of accounting and accountability, the public has gained a greater understanding of what can happen when businesses do not adhere to ethical practices. It is now time for the human resources and industrial relations communities to explore the application of ethics to the employment relationship and to discover the importance of treating employees, not just numbers, properly.