Business & economics / Human Resources & Personnel Management

Human Resources Management: All the Information You Need to Manage Your Staff and Meet Your Business Objectives

by Patricia Buhler

Human resources management is critical to the success of any organization, particularly in today's complex business environment. More and more often, managers and business owners, in addition to HR personnel,...

The Big Book of Team-Motivating Games : Spirit-Building, Problem-Solving and Communication Games for Every Group

by Mary Scannell & Edward Scannell

Teamwork can be fun!Games that improve team cooperation,communication, and spiritDid you know that games can:Raise sagging moraleLiven up boring staff meetingsIncrease interaction among staff membersPromote...

Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money

by Daniel Lapin

A practical approach to creating wealth-based on the established principles of ancient Jewish wisdom-made accessible to people of all backgrounds

The ups and downs of the economy prove Rabbi Daniel Lapin's famous...

Summary: The 4-hour workweek - Timothy Ferriss

by Must Read Summaries

This work offers a summary of the book “ THE 4-HOUR WORKWEEK: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich” by Timothy Ferriss.

Timothy Ferriss is a serial entrepreneur. In addition to speaking...

PHP and MySQL for Dummies

by Janet Valade & Lynn Kearny

Here's what Web designers need to know to create dynamic, database-driven Web sites

To be on the cutting edge, Web sites need to serve up HTML, CSS, and products specific to the needs of different customers using...

Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work

by Paul Babiak & Robert D. Hare

Let's say you're about to hire somebody for a position in your company. Your corporation wants someone who's fearless, charismatic, and full of new ideas. Candidate X is charming, smart, and has all the right...

The Top 10 Things You Must Know About Hiring the Best

by Cathy Fyock

Skills, facts, strategies, techniques...whatever it takes! FT Press's quick new Top 10s bring together the 10 most crucial things you MUST know to get great results, right now!

Supercharge your workforce with...

The Disposable American

by Louis Uchitelle

Layoffs have become a fact of life in today’s economy; initiated in the mid 1970s, they are now widely expected, and even accepted. It doesn’t have to be that way.In The Disposable American, award-winning...

Dialogue Gap: Why Communication Isnt Enough and What We Can Do about It, Fast

by Peter Nixon

The book that bridges the chasm between communication and understanding in negotiations

For years Peter Nixon worked with people from all walks of life, teaching them the art of negotiation. But it soon became...

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

by Patrick M. Lencioni

In The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Patrick Lencioni once again offers a leadership fable that is as enthralling and instructive as his first two best-selling books, The Five Temptations of a CEO and The Four...

Carrots and Sticks Don't Work: Build a Culture of Employee Engagement with the Principles of RESPECT

by Paul L. Marciano Ph.D.

Advance praise for Carrots and Sticks Don't Work:

"Paul Marciano provides a wealth of prescriptive advice that absolutely makes sense. You can actually open the book to any chapter and gain ideas for immediate...

Win-Win Performance Appraisals: What to Do Before, During, and After the Review to Get the Best Results for Yourself and Your Employees : What to Do B

by Lawrence Holpp

A complete approach to pain-free, productive performance appraisals that pay off all year round

In Win-Win Performance Appraisals: Get the Best Results for Yourself and Your Employees, HR/training and development...

Advanced Presentations by Design: Creating Communication That Drives Action

by Andrew Abela

Advanced Presentations by Design overturns much of the conventional wisdom and practice for creating presentations. Based on over 200 research studies from the fields of communication, marketing, psychology,...

Common Sense Management

by Roger Fulton

For anyone newly promoted to a management position, the influx of expectations and responsibilities can seem daunting. In Common Sense Management, veteran management consultant Roger Fulton distills a career's...

It's Always Personal: Navigating Emotion in the New Workplace

by Anne Kreamer

An innovative study of gender, emotion, and power, It’s Always Personal is an essential companion for everyone navigating the challenges of the contemporary workplace.

How often have we heard “It’s...

Building Expertise: Cognitive Methods for Training and Performance Improvement

by Ruth Colvin Clark

This third edition of the classic resource, Building Expertise draws on the most recent evidence on how to build innovative forms of expertise and translates that evidence into guidelines for instructional designers,...

Hiring Smart!: How to Predict Winners and Losers in the Incredibly Expensive People-Reading Gam e

by Pierre Mornell & Regan Dunnick

Now in Paperback!People are the most valuable asset in today'¬?s fiercely competitive workplace. In HIRING SMART, now available in paperback for the first time, Dr. Mornell delineates 45 simple strategies for...

Make Talent Your Business

by Wendy Axelrod & Jeannie Coyle

Despite considerable investment in resources and tools, many companies struggle to meet the demand for the talent they require. Make Talent Your Businessu201d gets to the heart of the matter: Managers themselves...

Going Global: Practical Applications and Recommendations for HR and OD Professionals in the Global Workplace

by Jeffrey Jolton, Kyle Lundby & Allen I. Kraut

This book uses the employee lifecycle as an underlying organizing framework and examines critical phases in I/O practice and the employee lifecycle (e.g., selection/placement, performance management/development,...

How to Hire A-Players: Finding the Top People for Your Team- Even If You Don't Have a Recruiting Department

by Eric Herrenkohl

How to find great employees, make great hires, and take your business to the next level

It is always easy to find people who want a job, but it's never easy to find and hire A-players. In How to Hire A-Players,...