Product Description: Increased global competition, aided and abetted by technology, has meant that organizations in every sector are having to compete on the basis of speed, cost, quality, innovation, flexibility and customer-responsiveness. If organizations wish to be able to compete successfully in the global marketplace, they need to develop innovative products and services quickly and cost-effectively...read more

Product Description: Given today's context of tough change, organizations need to be able to innovate as well as develop and implement strategy quickly and efficiently. The key to this is agility - a set of capabilities that can help organizations to rapidly adapt to changing circumstances...read more

Product Description: Organization development is the systematic method of taking an objective look at how an organization is operating, gathering information, and then deciding on the most appropriate action to help that organization develop and improve...read more

Product Description: What is HR leadership and what difference can it make to business success? Who is demonstrating HR leadership now and what might HR leadership look like in the future? How can aspiring HR leaders gain the skills, behaviours and credibility to navigate new and complex career structures and move up the career ladder?These are just some of the questions addressed by Linda Holbeche in her latest book...read more

Product Description: 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 twentieth century alone...read more

Product Description: Increased global competition, aided and abetted by technology, has meant that organizations in every sector are having to compete on the basis of speed, cost, quality, innovation, flexibility and customer-responsiveness. If organizations wish to be able to compete successfully in the global marketplace, they need to develop innovative products and services quickly and cost-effectively...read more

What difference can an aspiring HR strategist really make to business value? Is HR making the most of its new opportunities to become a pivotal part of the business? In a world where HR can suffer from a low, administrative, profile, Linda Holbeche shows how some HR strategists have impressed and delivered at the highest level. Building on surveys undertaken through Personnel Today magazine, and research via Roffey Park Management Institute, Holbeche provides a set of tools and case studies that show how HR strategists have utilised their skills to deliver a variety of key business objectives, often within their current job role. The relationship between an effective people strategy and business success is hard to quantify in financial terms, but Holbeche provides persuasive examples to add to the growing body of evidence.Case studies include M&A policies, organisational design, retaining high flyers in an international environment, and core competency approaches, Linda Holbeche's previous book on Motivating People in Lean Organizations was shortlisted for last year's MCA book prize. As featured in Personnel Today magazine (controlled circulation of 40 000)Case studies and vignettes on managing change, influencing organisational design and identifying and retaining talentAuthor's last book shortlisted for MCA book prize

Product Description: Will the early years of the new century continue to witness the huge growth in merger and acquisition activity which marked the end of the last? The chances are that they will - witness the value of deals carried out by the top five investment banks in the first quarter of 2001 alone ($456...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Shortlisted for the prestigious Management Consultancies Association (MCA) best management book of the year, 1997. Motivating People in Lean Organizations is the essential guide for managers who need to motivate employees and promote new forms of career development...read more

Product Description: Examines the effects of delayering and downsizing on employees and looks at how employers can improve the morale and career prospects of their staff. This book is intended for line managers, human resource managers and CEOs .