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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t (2001). Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers. It provides a comprehensive (yet very easy to read) summary of four decades of scientific research on human motivation, exposing a startling mismatch between what science knows and what business does.

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The Paradox of Commitment

LDRLB

Hall et al (2001) describe the paradox of commitment where “people are most able to develop internal commitments and attachments when they have the free choice to leave and choose to stay. She will not operate out of fear of losing her job and may actually tell her boss he is wrong when he is wrong. Is employee retention overrated?

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Google’s Quest to Build a Better Boss

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Adam Bryant for The New York Times (March 12, 2001) in which he focuses on a plan that Google code-named Project Oxygen in early 2009. To read the complete article, please click here. * * * Laszlo Bock of Google says its study found [.].

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Why We Shouldn’t Worry About the Declining Number of Public Companies

Harvard Business Review

Emerging digital firms compete with knowledge, strategy, and expert human capital, attacking even the largest established firms. They operate as lean organizations, using cloud and internet-based infrastructure, and launch and distribute products more quickly than did firms that competed with factories, warehouses, inventories, and suppliers.

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Where There’s No Margin for Toxic Leadership

Harvard Business Review

Plenty of large companies have dysfunctional executives, as many Fortune 500 human resource consultants can tell you. Back in 2001, it was growing rapidly. The CEO thought he needed to step out of the chief sales role to focus on operations and finances. To be sure, this is not just a problem for midsized firms.

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The Common Myths About Performance Reviews, Debunked

Harvard Business Review

But amid these changes, how many organizations have ever taken a close look at how performance reviews actually operate in their own workplace, over the long term? corporation between 2001 and 2007.

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HR Departments: Partners or Roadblocks in Strategy?

LDRLB

Timothy Stagich (2001) writes that personnel (HR) departments are “blackholes of human potential, buried under piles of resumes and red tape, while relying on hierarchies and cumbersome procedures to justify their existence in hierarchies (p.114). Strategy human resources strategy vanderpyl' Is HR ready for that?

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