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1. |  Coping with Unplanned Absences: A Pocket Guide By: Sarah Cook Publisher: IT Governance Ltd Publication Date: 07-JUN-2010 Insert Date: 11-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Coping with Unplanned Absences: A Pocket Guide
Unplanned absence from work could cost the UK economy as much as £12 billion a year!
When your organisation can no longer meet its deadlines, or provide customers with the high quality of service they expect, you have a problem. Unplanned absence also has a bad effect on morale, putting the rest of the team under pressure as they struggle to deal with the additional workload. Unplanned absence can occur as a result of force majeure (for example, when an airline is hit by strike action), or because of poor employee motivation and commitment.
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2. |  OHSAS 18001 Step by Step: A Practical Guide By: Naeem Sadiq Publisher: IT Governance Ltd Publication Date: 26-APR-2012 Insert Date: 11-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: OHSAS 18001 Step by Step: A Practical Guide
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An essential guide to OHSAS 18001
We say 'take care' as we wave our loved ones goodbye in the morning, but how often is this message taken into the workplace?
In this easy-to-understand and timely pocket guide, Naeem Sadiq, examines the Understanda as it gears up to meet OHSAS 18001 standards of occupational health and safety.
Real-world scenarios
Using a wide variety of fictional 'real world' scenarios, Sadiq demonstrates the hazards that might be present in a workplace, how to assess risk, how to manage OHSAS 18001 implementation and how to communicate its...
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3. |  By: Eric Mosley Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publication Date: 08-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 25-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
IS YOUR REVIEW PROCESS PERFORMING BELOW EXPECTATIONS?Fix the Performance Review with the Wisdom of Crowds!If you’re like most employees and managers, you dread the annual performance review. It’s outdated and frozen in time. It’s a relic of the way business used to work and doesn’t capitalize on the way business works today.
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4. |  Effective Interviewing and Information Gathering By: Thomas Diamante Publisher: Business Expert Press Publication Date: 15-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 17-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Effective Interviewing and Information Gathering This book is an invaluable, instructional field manual for you or any professional who needs to obtain and interpret information gathered directly by and from people, without recourse to a technological intermediary, such as online search. In the role of interviewer, interrogator, or evaluator, there are many opportunities to get it wrong. As advanced as our information-gathering technology may be, it is still impossible to get inside the head of an interviewee by conducting a Google search; so hit them with the tactics spelled out in this book instead in order to protect yourself from being...
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5. |  Industrial Relations, Trade Unions, and Labour Legislation, 2nd Edition By: P. R. N. Sinha; Indu Bala Sinha; Seema Priyadarshini Shekhar Publisher: Pearson Education India Publication Date: 30-JUL-2012 Insert Date: 14-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Industrial Relations, Trade Unions, and Labour Legislation, 2nd Edition
The second edition of Industrial Relations, Trade Unions, and Labour Legislation is an up-to-date interactive text, primarily related to issues in India. The book does, however, incorporate developments and practices in other countries, particularly UK and USA. Primarily designed for the students of management, economics, labour and social welfare, social work, commerce and similar disciplines this book will also be of interest to professionals in the field of labour relations and management.
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6. |  By: Andrew W. Savitz Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 26-FEB-2013 Insert Date: 13-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
HR Professional's guide to creating a strategically sustainable organization
Employees are central to creating sustainable organizations, yet they are left on the sidelines in most sustainability initiatives along with the HR professionals who should be helping to engage and energize them. This book shows business leaders and HR professionals how to: motivate employees to create economic, environmental and social value; facilitate necessary culture, strategic and organizational change; embed sustainability into the employee lifecycle; and strengthen existing capabilities and develop new...
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7. |  Human Resources Management for Health Care Organizations: A Strategic Approach By: Joan E. Pynes; Donald N. Lombardi Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 24-JAN-2012 Insert Date: 10-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Human Resources Management for Health Care Organizations: A Strategic Approach
This book is a comprehensive guide to the essential areas of health care human resources management, and is an immediately useful practical handbook for practitioners as well as a textbook for use health care management programs. Written by the authors of Handbook for the New Health Care Manager and Human Resources Management for Public and Nonprofit Organizations, the book covers the context of human resources management in the unique health care business arena from a strategic perspective includes SHRM and human resources planning, organizational culture and assessment, and the legal...
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8. |  Leadership in Action: Three Keys to Effective Feedback By: Sloan R. Weitzel Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-AUG-2000 Insert Date: 08-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: Three Keys to Effective Feedback
Feedback should help recipients identify ways in which they can improve.
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9. |  Leadership in Action: Getting the Message: How to Feel Your Way with Other Cultures By: Don W. Prince; Michael H. Hoppe Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-JUN-2000 Insert Date: 08-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: Getting the Message: How to Feel Your Way with Other Cultures
Unconsciously we expect other people to think, feel, and act the way we do. When they don't conform to our expectations, we put our own interpretations on their behavior.
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10. |  By: Simon Maier Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Publication Date: 01-APR-2012 Insert Date: 03-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Diary
What is the greatest headache faced by those involved in managing corporate and internal communications? In these times of crises and immense change, business communications has become the latest minefield for management. Ian Chappell is a communications manager who has just joined the Firm. The Diary is written by Ian, in his attempt to seek clarity in what is most definitely a confusing world in his new job at the Firm. Written with honesty, frankness and dry humour, The Diary provides a unique perspective on the world of business communications and its various machinations. All good...
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11. |  The Case for the Chief Data Officer By: Peter Aiken; Michael M. Gorman Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publication Date: 10-APR-2013 Insert Date: 03-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Case for the Chief Data Officer
Data are an organization's sole, non-depletable, non-degrading, durable asset. Engineered right, data's value increases over time because the added dimensions of time, geography, and precision. To achieve data's full organizational value, there must be dedicated individual to leverage data as assets - a Chief Data Officer or CDO who's three job pillars are: Dedication solely to leveraging data assets, Unconstrained by an IT project mindset, and Reports directly to the business Once these three pillars are set into place, organizations can leverage their data assets. Data...
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12. |  Leadership in Action: Follow-Up - A Valuable Tool in Leadership Development By: Jennifer W. Martineau; Judith L. Steed Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-APR-2001 Insert Date: 30-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: Follow-Up - A Valuable Tool in Leadership Development
People can be motivated by charting a leadership development path and looking forward to periodic measures to indicate their progress.
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13. |  Leadership in Action: Leveraging Diversity: It Takes a System By: Pamela L. Shipp; Carl J. Davison Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-FEB-2001 Insert Date: 30-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: Leveraging Diversity: It Takes a System
Too many organizations and leaders overlook an ace in the hole for creating value: managing the diversity of the workforce in a way that maximizes the talents and intellectual capital of all their employees.
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14. |  Leadership in Action - Issues and Observations - Finding Success at Succession By: David Berke Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-DEC-2002 Insert Date: 30-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action - Issues and Observations - Finding Success at Succession
In recent years, succession planning—which aims to ensure continuity in key leadership and management functions—has become increasingly important for organizations
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15. |  Leadership in Action: A Retention Strategy for the Ages By: Karen Bryson; Karissa McKenna Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-OCT-2002 Insert Date: 30-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: A Retention Strategy for the Ages
Knowing what Baby Boomers and, especially, Gen-Xers need and want in the workplace can provide an advantage in the battle for talent.
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16. |  Leadership in Action: Advancing Women: Organizational Fairness That Works for Everyone By: Julia Brandon Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-AUG-2002 Insert Date: 30-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: Advancing Women: Organizational Fairness That Works for Everyone
A recent study identifies specific practices that contribute to a perception of fairness and thereby to increased performance and career satisfaction among women managers.
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17. |  Frameworks for Developing Efficient Information Systems By: John Krogstie Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 30-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 26-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Frameworks for Developing Efficient Information Systems As advances in technology continue to generate the collective knowledge of an organization and its operations, strategic models for information systems are developed in order to arrange business processes and business data. Frameworks for Developing Efficient Information Systems: Models, Theory, and Practice presents research and practices on the advancements in systems analysis and design. These theoretical frameworks and practical solutions are useful for researchers, practitioners, and academicians as this book aims to bridge the communication gap between business managers and system...
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18. |  Governance, Communication, and Innovation in a Knowledge Intensive Society By: Sean Siqueira Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 30-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 26-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Governance, Communication, and Innovation in a Knowledge Intensive Society The proper use and dissemination of information among stakeholders, organizations, and societies is crucial for the development of productive and prosperous communities. Governance, Communication, and Innovation in a Knowledge Intensive Society gathers current research on knowledge management in governments, organizations, and institutions, and presents a compilation useful to academics, professionals, politicians, and policymakers invested in knowledge intensive societies. This book investigates the impact of knowledge and information technologies on fields as diverse as education, culture,...
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19. |  By: Pierre-Olivier Giffard Publisher: Eyrolles Publication Date: 07-JUN-2012 Insert Date: 10-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Les titres de services
PrésentationTous les titres de services analysés : leur rôle, les principes clés, des trucs et astuces.Des informations utiles pour les déployer efficacement en entreprise.De nombreux exemples sur l'apport des titres de services comme facteurs clés de motivation des salariés.Titre-restaurant, CESU préfinancé, chèque-vacances, titre-cadeau...Les titres de services existent depuis plus de cinquante ans pour motiver et améliorer le bien-être de leurs utilisateurs et contribuer à l'efficacité des entreprises.Véritables avancées sociales et porteurs de valeurs, ces outils RH sont simples à ...
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20. |  Performance des comités éxécutifs By: Lionel Prud'homme Publisher: Editions d'Organisation Publication Date: 07-JUL-2011 Insert Date: 10-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Performance des comités éxécutifs
PrésentationUn livre de stratégie à la frontière des ressources humaines et du développement personnel.Un texte ambitieux, à la structure simple et équilibrée, illustré de références sociologiques, philosophiques, mais également pratiques.Des exemples pris dans le quotidien de l'entreprise, issus d'interviews de cadres dirigeants.Un test d'autodiagnostic des profils d'action pour aller plus loin.Écrit par un spécialiste des ressources humaines, cet ouvrage ambitionne d'apporter une meilleure connaissance des mécanismes de la dirigeance et de leur influence au sein de l'entreprise.L'ouvrage...
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