Product Description: “A guidebook for how leaders can motivate, engage, and recognize their people all the while growing the business profitably.” —Forbes.comEvery year, thousands of visitors come from around the world to visit Menlo Innovations, a small software company in Ann Arbor, Michigan...read more

Product Description: This book examines the tendency in market economies to reduce the time workers spend at their place of employment and considers the role scientific management has played in this development. The author contends that the changing nature of worktime can be explained by changes in both the capitalistic production process and the demands that this process places on the psycho-physiological capacities of human beings...read more

Product Description: Whether you're fully staffed or growing, this comprehensive and authoritative handbook is the time-saving tool you need to build successful staffs for the future. Rebecca Brumley, author of the highly-praised Public Library Manager's Forms, Policies, and Procedures Handbook, returns with this new guide to public library job descriptions - featuring more than 150 job titles that address the full scope of public library functions...read more

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Product Description: Comprizing research reports and articles which have appeared in books now out of print, or in issues of journals not easily available in libraries, this two-volume set contributes to the research and thinking into the field of job and organizational design...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Book by Konz, Stephan A.

Product Description: Provides ways to design, manage, and maintain more useful work groups--including labor-management committees, staff meetings, advisory groups, and policy committees. In eleven original chapters, reviews current knowledge about groups and explores new directions for understanding them and improving their effectiveness...read more

Product Description: Forward-thinking corporations around the globe--from long-established leaders to fast-growing newcomers--have made it clear: Committed, self-directed work teams are today's new paradigm for success. And as customers demand ever-shorter cycle times and ever-higher satisfaction levels, the positive effects numbers such as these have become increasingly difficult to ignore...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

(USE FOR PRACTITIONER/BUSINESS PIECES) In an increasingly knowledge-based economy, a company's success hinges on the quality of its people. People set strategy, make decisions, build relationships, and drive change. Businesses possess a powerful advantage if their people do their jobs better and faster than the competition. The need for more sophisticated, integrated, and strategically linked human resource applications (e.g., selection systems, training programs, and performance management interventions) is recasting the very role of HR. One of the critical tools in the HR professionals' toolkit that has been used to create these applications is job analysis. However, much of today's job analysis practice has failed to keep up with the evolutionary pace. This book is about a "next generation" job analysis method that involves translating business strategies into work performance and competency requirements, and using this information and data to create an architecture that can be used to support the sophisticated HR applications and enterprise resource planning systems that will be a part of high-performance third millennium organizations. Numerous case studies, applied examples, and project management tips contribute to the practice-oriented design of the book to illustrate a personnel research activity that is essentially an ongoing organizational development intervention. (USE THIS COPY FOR TEXTBOOK PIECES) The business landscape is changing and becoming more complex. Furthermore, human resources is at the vortex of much of what is changing. The need for more sophisticated, integrated, and strategically linked human resource applications (e.g., selection systems, training programs, and performance management interventions) is recasting the very role of HR. One of the critical tools in the HR professionals' toolkit that has been used to create these applications is job analysis. However, much of today's job analysis practice has failed to keep up with the evolutionary pace. This book is about a "next generation" job analysis method that involves translating business strategies into work performance and competency requirements, and using this information and data to create an architecture that can be used to support the sophisticated HR applications and enterprise resource planning systems that will be a part of high-performance third millennium organizations. Numerous case studies, applied examples, and project management tips contribute to the practice-oriented design of the book to illustrate a personnel research activity that is essentially an ongoing organizational development intervention.

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Explains the advantages of creating results-oriented job descriptions, offers advice on writing effective descriptions, and discusses legal considerations (view table of contents)

Product Description: Book by Quaid, Maeve

Product Description: Today's managers are flooded with "human resources" concepts and jargon - such as ERISA, the ADA, "job-ranking" or "participative management". Now, they can use this easy reference for immediate clarification. This book explains general HR terms and provides guidance for applying them in specific situations...read more