Who are Your Best People?: How to Find, Measure and Manage Your Top Talent (Financial Times Series)

Looks at individual behaviour, what drives it and how to cope with it. This book explains how to recognize and understand difficult people and their actions as a means to resolve problematic situations and awkward issues. It is suitable for managers looking to improve performance.

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 ...

The Truth About Managing People offers real solutions for the make-or-break problems faced by every manager. You'll discover: how to overcome the true obstacles to teamwork; why too much communication can be as dangerous as too little; how to improve your hiring and employee evaluations; and even how to learn charisma. This isn't someone's opinion; it's a definitive, evidence-based guide to ...

The coaching profession continues to grow, and is estimated to generate around GBP750million globally, (per annum). the current shift sees organisations wanting to harness coaching less from external coaches and more from within. Managers who coach' are more desirable than those who simply manage'. Coaching is becoming a core management skill, both as a solution to current operational issues ...

Adopted by many major corporations, this work argues for using questions and following the GROW sequence - Goals, Reality, Options, Will - to generate prompt action and peak performance. It explores the dynamics of team development and positions coaching as the essential team leadership skill.

Draws on science, spiritual values, psychology, the cutting edge of management thought with leading companies which employ Fifth Discipline methods. This edition contains more than 100 pages of material about how companies are actually using and benefiting from Fifth Discipline practices.

Provides advice to managers and team leaders on how to manage people in their teams - getting the best results from them and dealing with any people problems that may arise. This book covers various aspects that involves getting things done through people, including: leadership, motivating people, interviewing, and handling people problems.

Contains chapters on: Human Capital Management, the Role of the Front Line Manager; HR Strategies; Developing and Implementing HR Strategies; and Learning and Development. This title is useful for students of HRM - both undergraduate and postgraduate, as well as for students of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) diploma.

This market-leading text provides thorough coverage of all the main areas of human resource management practice. The book is written from a practical perspective in a clear and engaging style. It includes full coverage of operational issues and introduces the major academic debates of relevance to the field. It is written as an introduction for students of HRM at all levels.

Contemporary Human Resource Management provides students with a thorough and critical exploration of all the key functions and issues within HRM today. Written in a clear yet thought-provoking style, the book contains chapters contributed by experts in their field to ensure coverage of the most recent ideas and practices. Each chapter is complemented by at least 2 more extensive case studies, ...