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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

Every HR, OD professional, and management consultant should at the very least be aware of their existence, if not well-versed in their ideas and theories. In one of the defining management studies carried out in the 90s, Collins and his team complied a list of 1,435 companies in search of those special few that could truly be called “great.”

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How Can HR Contribute to Business Growth and Help Envision Future Success?

HR Digest

We are slowly witnessing the resurgence of Human Resource Management, with companies actively investigating how HR teams can contribute to business growth. The role of HR professionals extends to people management of various forms and these small teams are responsible for the well-being of such larger cohorts.

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The Consumerization Of IT And It's Impact In The Workplace

Eric Jacobson

From employee and manager self-service portals to the growing number of social media elements in performance and learning management, the technology employees expect to find in the workplace is changing. How will this shift--the consumerization of IT--impact the way an organization recruits, engages and manages its workforce?

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The Big Picture of Business – Quality is Important for Business: Real Quality vs. Arbitrary Metrics

Strategy Driven

Quality is not something that managers assign others to achieve. Rather than assume all is wrong or right with an organization and take a defensive posture, management must view quality as essential to their economic survival or growth. It is not enough for management to endorse quality programs; they must actively participate.

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When Competition Between Coworkers Leads to Unethical Behavior

Harvard Business Review

It’s a potential problem in all kinds of areas: colleagues who have a strong rivalry at work, managers who need to make their numbers for the quarter, even political parties that spend campaign funds to attract votes. Now, Sam also managed the bank’s error account. Of course, this is illegal and unethical.

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The Big Picture of Business: Been There, Done That

Strategy Driven

Their work is off-the-shelf, conforms to an established mode of operation, contains original thought and draws precedents from experience. (17 99.99999 percent of actual management consultants come from five basic career orientations and fit onto one of the five branches of The Business Tree : Technical or niche industry orientation.

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The Big Picture of Business- Professional Education Necessary for Company Success

Strategy Driven

I conduct Executive Think Tanks for corporate management. Organizations of all sizes must have the Think Tank.which delineates future operations, including education and training. Human Resources Oversees Training. Don't base the training decisions on 'apples to oranges' comparisons. Why Do We Listen to Each Other?