CATEGORY WINNER: Business Book Awards 2021 - HR & Management CategoryAn engaged and productive workforce is essential for organizational growth and business success.However, record levels of disengaged staff, a lack of motivation and employees feeling that they lack the necessary skills and support to excel at their jobs is putting this in jeopardy. HR practitioners are ideally placed to address these issues and boost productivity ...

Create an Organization That Runs on More than Intuition and GuessworkMost companies today have access to reams of data: marketing, supply chain, finance, as well as critical data about their workforce. Yet research shows that leaders at these companies lack the confidence to effectively integrate and use this data to compete more effectively in the marketplace. While executives know the results they need to achieve, they often fail to analyze the impact of...

Problems, problems, problems …The world had been a paradise until the Fall, when the holders of the control codes for the world-spanning program called "Mother" fell out in civil war.The United Free States felt well defended behind its screen of elite Dragon carriers that held sway in the Atlantis Ocean. But when New Destiny proved to have dragon carriers of its own, and more of them, the linch-pin of the UFSdefense went out the window.Now, with the UFS' back...

Paradise LostIn the future there is no want, no war, no disease nor ill-timed death. The world is a paradise—and then, in amoment, it ends. The council that controls the Net falls out and goes to war. Everywhere people who have neverknown a moment of want or pain are left wondering how to survive.But scattered across the face of the earth are communities which have returned to the natural life of soil andsmall farm. In the village of Raven’s Mill, Edmun...

Swords, Sex, and Rockets!Paradise falls. Humanity is thrown back to an age of steel and blood. Now the fuel that powers the "changed" world is up for grabs in an orbiting spacecraft. With only days to plan, rough and ready paladin Herzer Herrick must assemble ateam of expert warriors capable of both seat-of-the-pants engineering and handto-hand combat in space. In the meantime, Herzer must face his own demons as he waits for his emotionally-scarred fiancé to recover and fina...

The Battle Against Those Determined to Rule the World—or Destroy It—ContinuesIn the future the world was a paradise—and then, in a moment, it ended. The council that controlled theNet fell out and went to war, while people who had never known a moment of want or pain were left wondering howto survive.Duke Edmund Talbot has been assigned a simple mission: Go to the Southern Isles and make contact with thescattered mer-folk—those who, before the worldwide...

This trusted reference puts thousands of ready-to-use words, phrases, descriptions, and action items right at your fingertips — perfect for review time, creating development plans, and monitoring performance year-round.Whether you're an HR professional or a manager, chances are there's one task you really dislike: giving performance reviews. Even if you know the basic points you want to get across, finding the right words and committing them to paper is about as mu...

The Balanced Scorecard translates a company's vision and strategy into a coherent set of performance measures. The four perspectives of the scorecard--financial measures, customer knowledge, internal business processes, and learning and growth--offer a balance between short-term and long-term objectives, between outcomes desired and performance drivers of those outcomes, and between hard objective measures and softer, more subjective measures. In the first part, Kaplan and Norton ...

This book is written for everyone involved in the hiring process.It will help hiring managers and recruiters find and hire more top-notch people for any job, from entry-level to senior executive. Using the two-question Performance-based Interview, anyone who is involved in assessing candidates will quickly be more effective and more accurate.Just as important, it will help job-seekers find better jobs by giving them an inside view of how most companies look for, assess and ...

This useful resource will help you gain a storehouse of sample interview answers that consistently highlight your ability in these areas.Employers today are using increasingly tough interview questions to evaluate candidates based on key competencies and determine how well they think on their feet. To stand out in these competency-based interviews, job seekers must be prepared with situation-specific examples and answers to questions that highlight their accomplish...

The Institute Way outlines a practical step-by-step process to formulate and execute strategy in business, government and not-for-profit organizations. The book details how to manage and adapt to reach a higher level of performance using a methodology that blends strategic planning, performance measurement and change management into a simple, disciplined framework that's easy to build and communicate. The publication is the brainchild of the Balanced Scorecard Institute, an organi...

Named as BusinessWeek's #1 Management Educator, expert Dave Ulrich and his team of authors bring human resources a whole new way of thinking and practicing—moving the focus from internal issues to actively helping to set business strategies. Businesses of the future need "all hands on deck" when implementing new ways to stimulate grown and cost efficiency, and this includes human resources.In HR Transformation, the team presents a four-phase model of transformation that sh...