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1. |  By: Robin Stuart-Kotze; Chris Dunn Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall Publication Date: 02-FEB-2010 Insert Date: 18-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Who Are Your Best People?
Do you know who the best people in your team are? Have you got a clear idea of how much they deliver? Many companies still proclaim that Our people are our most important asset, yet fail to treat that asset as valuable. In fact they often ignore their in-house talent, believing that the only way to get the top people is to seek elsewhere. Who Are Your Best People? destroys the widely-accepted myth of a talent shortage and shows how you can unearth and value the hidden talent that already exist in your organisation. This book will open your eyes to the reality of talent...
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2. |  Management Research Methodology: Integration of Principles, Methods and Techniques By: K. N. Krishnaswamy; Appa Iyer Sivakumar; M. Mathirajan Publisher: Pearson Education India Publication Date: 19-JUL-2006 Insert Date: 17-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Management Research Methodology: Integration of Principles, Methods and Techniques
The subject of management research methodology is enthralling and complex. A student or a practitioner of management research is beguiled by uncertainties in the search and identification of the research problem, intrigued by the ramifications of research design, and confounded by obstacles in obtaining accurate data and complexities of data analysis. Management Research Methodology: Integration of Principles, Methods and Techniques seeks a balanced treatment of all these aspects and blends problem-solving techniques, creativity aspects, mathematical modelling and qualitative approaches in...
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3. |  The Performance Appraisal Tool Kit By: Paul Falcone; Winston Tan Publisher: AMACOM Publication Date: 15-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 16-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Performance Appraisal Tool Kit A well-crafted performance plan has the power to dramatically impact a company’s bottom line by increasing efficiency and effectiveness in the workplace. This uniquely practical book provides a customizable appraisal template covering the essential areas of performance and conduct and reveals how you can adapt it to fit varying business strategies. Taking into account factors such as workforce composition, company growth stage, and organizational goals and challenges, The Performance Appraisal Tool Kit shows you how to: • Profile ideal employee performance and behavior
• Design competencies...
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4. |  Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy By: Amy C. Edmondson; Edgar H. Schein Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 03-APR-2012 Insert Date: 10-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy
New breakthrough thinking in organizational learning, leadership, and change
Continuous improvement, understanding complex systems, and promoting innovation are all part of the landscape of learning challenges today's companies face. Amy Edmondson shows that organizations thrive, or fail to thrive, based on how well the small groups within those organizations work. In most organizations, the work that produces value for customers is carried out by teams, and increasingly, by flexible team-like entities. The pace of change and the fluidity of most work structures means that it's not...
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5. |  Leadership in Action: Leading the Way to Employee Satisfaction By: Judith L. Steed; Gina Hernez-Broome Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-OCT-2000 Insert Date: 08-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: Leading the Way to Employee Satisfaction
Even slight differences in managerial effectiveness can affect subordinates' satisfaction with organizational climate.
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6. |  Leadership in Action: Knowledge Management - A New Challenge for Leaders By: Pamela S. Mayer Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-JUN-2000 Insert Date: 08-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: Knowledge Management - A New Challenge for Leaders
Leadership must determine what kind of knowledge and skills should be developed
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7. |  By: P. N. Singh; Neeraj Kumar Publisher: Pearson Education India Publication Date: 09-JUL-2010 Insert Date: 06-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Employee Relations Management
The introduction of the new economic policy in 1991 had a significant bearing on industrial relations. Coupled with liberalization, these policies changed the way industries functioned in India. It forced the government, employers and trade unions to align themselves to new realities. There is an ongoing transition in industrial relations on the global scale as well. The focus is gradually shifting from traditional industrial relations, characterized by conflict resolution, to employee relations management, characterized by collaborative partnerships between the employers and the...
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8. |  Managing Startups: Best Blog Posts By: Thomas Eisenmann Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 15-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 02-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Managing Startups: Best Blog Posts If you want salient advice about your startup, you’ve hit the jackpot with this book. Harvard Business School Professor Tom Eisenmann annually compiles the best posts from many blogs on technology startup management, and this book makes his latest collection available to the broader entrepreneur community. You’ll find 72 posts from successful entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, such as Fred Wilson, Steve Blank, Ash Maurya, Joel Spolsky, and Ben Yoskovitz....
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9. |  Quel manager êtes-vous ?, 2 edition By: Daniel Eppling; Laurent Magnien Publisher: Editions d'Organisation Publication Date: 07-JUL-2011 Insert Date: 30-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Quel manager êtes-vous ?, 2 edition
Faites le test : vos collaborateurs ont-ils envie de vous copier ? C'est le cas si vous avez déjà recours aux "bonnes pratiques" managériales, celles qui légitiment votre autorité, poussent vos collaborateurs à se mobiliser et garantissent le succès de votre équipe. Quelles sont les "bonnes pratiques" ? Tout est une question de comportement ! A partir de l'observation de milliers de cadres sur leur lieu de travail, les auteurs ont répertorié 4 niveaux de comportements chez le manager, du plus disqualifiant au plus exemplaire. A quel niveau vous situez-vous ? Peut-être déléguez-vous au...
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10. |  The Truth About Winning at Work (Collection), 2/e By: Stephen Robbins; Martha I. Finney; James O'Rourke; William S. Kane Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 29-APR-2013 Insert Date: 30-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Truth About Winning at Work (Collection), 2/e A brand new collection of management
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11. |  BSS Managing in the Discomfort Zone By: Patrick Forsyth Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Publication Date: 01-JUL-2012 Insert Date: 20-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: BSS Managing in the Discomfort Zone
Why is it that effective action is so often difficult to take? How do you make it work when you do take it? Human nature tends to make action difficult - or make it more likely to be delayed or be done half-heartedly (with subsequent negative impact on results). There are so many unpleasant issues to be faced, such as firing people or dealing with poor or unacceptable behaviour and performance; tackling sensitive issues such as bullying and discrimination; and handling awkward or embarrassing situations like networking or prospecting. Too often, managers and others find themselves in the...
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12. |  By: Mike Hoyle; Peter Newman Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Publication Date: 01-JUN-2011 Insert Date: 20-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: BSS: Simply a Great Manager
Like many things in life, becoming a great manager is in fact a simple process - if only we knew how and changed our current habits. The authors in this book have identified 15 fundamental principles that are exhibited by great managers and which can easily be followed by mere mortals when they have something or somebody to manage. These fundamentals derive from the real experience of successful managers. One by one, the fundamentals are described and illustrative examples given of their use, especially in relation to what great managers do and importantly what bad managers fail to do....
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13. |  By: Anne Hawkins Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Publication Date: 01-AUG-2010 Insert Date: 19-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: 100 Great Cost-Cutting Ideas
Every company is now in the business of reducing costs wherever and whenever they can. No business owner or manager can avoid cost-cutting if they are to succeed, or indeed survive. This book contains 100 great ideas to reduce and save costs in business organisations. Researched from leading companies around the world, each idea is described in a succinct way. You are then shown how to apply that idea to your own business situation. A simple formula which has the potential to reap great rewards.
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14. |  Managers as Mentors, 3rd Edition By: Chip R. Bell; Marshall Goldsmith Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 03-JUN-2013 Insert Date: 18-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Managers as Mentors, 3rd Edition Leaders Creating Leaders
This latest edition of the classic Managers as Mentors is a rapid-fire read that guides leaders in helping associates grow in today’s tumultuous organizations. Thoroughly revised throughout with twelve new chapters, this edition places increased emphasis on the mentor acting as a learning catalyst with the protégé rather than simply handing down knowledge.
As with previous editions, a fictional case study of a mentor-protégé relationship runs through the book. But now this is augmented with interviews with six top US CEOs. New chapters cover topics such as the role...
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15. |  By: Mandi Walls Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 15-APR-2013 Insert Date: 16-APR-2013 Slots: 0.0 | Overview: Building a DevOps Culture Building a DevOps culture requires more than installing a configuration management system, using a source code repository, and telling your teams "Ok, now we are all doing DevOps." Organizational culture is comprised of a shared set of values and behaviors. Tools help us create process, which in turn influences our behaviors. Unfortunately, tools alone aren't enough to create a stable culture for collaboration that we now think of as DevOps. Building, or in many cases rebuilding, our team cultures to reflect changing goals and values is a challenge faced not just by teams transitioning to...
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16. |  Culture Shock: A Handbook For 21st Century Business By: Will McInnes Publisher: Capstone Publication Date: 04-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 10-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Culture Shock: A Handbook For 21st Century Business
'Will McInnes has nailed it. Inspiring and comprehensive, Culture Shock is aspirational future thinking with its feet firmly on the ground'
Jemima Kiss, Digital Media correspondent, The Guardian
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There's a revolution afoot . . . don't be left behind. A new dawn has broken. Business has changed profoundly—fueled by aggressively advancing technology and a volatile global economy. So why has most business culture remained unchanged? Most organizations are closed, secretive, siloed, slow to change, and deeply hierarchical. It's time to shock these cultures....
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17. |  Manager selon les personnalités By: Jacques Fradin; Frédéric Le Moullec Publisher: Eyrolles Publication Date: 07-JUL-2011 Insert Date: 10-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Manager selon les personnalités
PrésentationCultivez la motivationC'est un secret de polichinelle, la motivation au travail se dégrade depuis quelques années. L'entreprise serait-elle bientôt en panne sèche de motivation ? Cet ouvrage répond à cette question en donnant des pistes de réflexion et d'action, tant sur le plan individuel que managérial, pour résoudre ce problème en profondeur.Le modèle présenté, notamment issu des neurosciences, éclaire d'un jour nouveau les mécanismes de la motivation. Les auteurs montrent que nous sommes pourvus :de motivations profondes et durables, définissant nos axes de plaisirs, nos...
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18. |  Les 6 chiffres-clés du manager efficace By: Patrick M. Georges; Pierre-Alain Cardinaux Publisher: Eyrolles Publication Date: 23-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 10-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Les 6 chiffres-clés du manager efficace
Présentation"Toute organisation peut être dirigée très simplement en mesurant et en améliorant 6 indicateurs bien choisis"Une feuille de route conçue pour vous aider à atteindre vos objectifs et accroître la rentabilité de votre organisation, simplement en mesurant et en améliorant six indicateurs :Le Taux de Revenus NouveauxLe Temps de Contact ClientLe Gain Par ProcessusL'Index de Responsabilisation des CollaborateursLa Rentabilité de la Ressource CritiqueLe Statut du Projet-CléAu sommaireIntroduction - La méthode des 6 chiffresLe Taux de Revenus Nouveaux (TRN)Le Temps de Contact Client...
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19. |  By: Christian Hohmann Publisher: Eyrolles Publication Date: 27-APR-2012 Insert Date: 10-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Lean management
PrésentationLe Lean comme cadre de référence et ensemble de bonnes pratiques managériales.Une architecture par grands thèmes permet une lecture linéaire ou sélective, selon les besoins des lecteurs.Les conditions de réussite et les écueils à éviter lors de la mise en oeuvre.De nombreux retours d'expériences et d'exemples concrets abondamment illustrés.Cet ouvrage revisite les fondamentaux du Lean pour faire du top management les initiateurs et les contributeurs de la transformation Lean dans l'entreprise. Les méthodes et les outils à maîtriser sont passés en revue et assortis de retours...
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20. |  By: Robert Diez; Laurence Sarton Publisher: Eyrolles Publication Date: 05-APR-2012 Insert Date: 10-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Transférer les compétences
PrésentationComment éviter les pertes de compétences stratégiques causées par les départs de salariés, à la retraite notamment ?Cet ouvrage propose une méthode complète et pragmatique pour faciliter la préservation et la transmission du capital immatériel, constitué de compétences d'expérience souvent implicites et ignorées. Il s'agit de mettre en place une démarche encadrée, s'appuyant sur l'implication volontaire des intéressés et permettant de dépasser un certain nombre de blocages : le manque de dialogue entre les générations, le sentiment que ce que l'on fait est "évident", la...
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