Business & economics / Human Resources & Personnel Management

The ROI Fieldbook

by Patricia Phillips, Jack J. J. Phillips & Ron Stone

Since the publication of 'Return on Investment in Training and Performance Improvement Programs,' many individuals have attempted to implement the ROI methodology in their organizations. Having a credible process...

Leading People Through Disasters: An Action Guide

by SPHR, Kathryn McKee & Liz Guthridge

The only book that tackles how to manage the human factors and provide leadership before, during, and after catastrophic events provoked by nature, accidents, or acts of violence. The potential damage that can...

Work it Out: Using Personality Type to Improve Team Performance

by Sandra Krebs Hirsh & Jane A. G. Kise

For a decade, Work It Out has been at the forefront helping business leaders, managers, and consultants resolve conflict and miscommunication in the workplace. Now this newly revised edition brings current how...

Performance Management: Measure and Improve The Effectiveness of Your Employees

by Harvard Press

Today’s competitive workplace demands that managers evaluate employee performance, and provide coaching. Performance Management will help managers prepare for a formal performance meeting with a direct report,...

Corporate Reputations, Branding and People Management

by Susan Hetrick & Graeme Martin

The book helps HR practitioners understand corporate-level concepts and their relevance to the key strategic agendas of organizations by drawing on a wide range of ideas from branding, marketing, communications,...

Learning to Think Strategically

by Julia Sloan

In Learning to Think Strategically, author Julia Sloan presents a previously unexamined account of the relationship between strategic thinking and the learning process involved - taking learning from the academic...

The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Performance Appraisal Phrases

by Peter Gray & John Carroll

Performance reviews, minus the dread.

Nobody likes performance appraisals. To make the most of them, though, managers and supervisors can take advantage of this guide, complete with the phrases and words they...

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Meeting & Event Planning, 2nd Edition

by Robin E. Craven & Lynn Johnson Golabowski

Takes meetings and conferences to the next level

Managing People and Organizations in Changing Contexts

by Graeme Martin

Managing People and Organizations in Changing Contexts addresses the contemporary problems faced by managers in dealing with people, organizations and managing change in a theoretically-informed and practical...

Understanding Change

by Linda Holbeche

Change is now so commonplace that people no longer talk in terms of the "whitewater epoch". Every sector of the economies of the developed world has experienced huge swathes of change in the last decade of the...

Leadership and Management for HR Professionals

by Keith Porter, Paul Smith & Roger Fagg

This is a new and completely revised edition of the successful text published in 2000 entitled Core Management. The book provides excellent coverage of the CIPD syllabus for three core areas of the CIPD syllabus....

Coaching

by James Flaherty

Praise for the first edition:

"As interest in coaching grows, I think Flaherty's book will come to stand out as a definitive work." - Peter M. Senge

Coaching: Evoking Excellence in Others proposes rigorous methods...

The HR Value Proposition

by David Ulrich & Wayne Brockbank

The international best seller Human Resource Champions helped set the HR agenda for the 1990s and enabled HR professionals to become strategic partners in their organizations. But earning a seat at the executive...

Managing Risk: The HR Contribution

by John Stevens, Vicki Jeynes & Elvis Cotena

This handbook is a one-stop guide that sets out a strategic approach for understanding and managing HR risks.

Managing Risk: The HR Contribution will enable the user to understand how managing HR risks will...

Business Environment

by Elearn

Management Extra brings all the best management thinking together in one package.

The series fuses key ideas with applied activities to help managers examine and improve how they work in practice.

Management...

The Adult Learner

by Malcolm S S Knowles, Elwood F F Holton III & Richard A A Swanson

This much acclaimed text has been fully updated to incorporate the latest advances in the field. As leading authorities on adult education and training, Elwood Holton and Dick Swanson have revised this edition...

Techniques for Coaching and Mentoring

by David Megginson & David Clutterbuck

The aim of this book is to provide the coach or mentor with a wider portfolio of techniques and approaches to helping others than would normally be gained from practical experience or attending a course. In...

Coaching that Counts

by Dianna Anderson & Merrill Anderson

As the field of business coaching has expanded and evolved over the last decade, many different approaches to business coaching have been created. The authors of Coaching that Counts have written a practical,...

The Dynamics of Managing Diversity

by Gill Kirton & Anne-Marie Greene

This text takes the view that the study of equality needs to consider not only issues of discrimination, but also the needs of people in relation to their diverse cultures and identities. It therefore takes...

HRM in Europe

by Wolfgang Mayrhofer, Chris Brewster & Michael Morley

The increasing number of cross-border alliances and mergers both within Europe and between Europe and other parts of the world have made it imperative for students of management to have a thorough understanding...